Solway, MN population, income and ZIP codes

Solway city is a very small community in Minnesota, with 116 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #774 of 914 ranked by population — larger than 15% of them. The median age here is 25.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Solway city earn a median of $118,750 a year, 51.2% above the national figure of $78,538 and 57% above the $75,469 median for the 361 Minnesota cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 9.5% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Solway city is valued at $185,800, 38.8% below the national figure and 23% below the $240,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 1.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 90.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

A median age of 25.8 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address. With 116 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Solway city against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Solway city because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.