Verndale, MN population, income and ZIP codes

Verndale city is a very small community in Minnesota, with 479 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #512 of 914 ranked by population — larger than 44% of them. The median age here is 37.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. 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 Verndale city earn a median of $44,083 a year, 43.9% below the national figure of $78,538 and 42% below the $75,469 median for the 361 Minnesota cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 13.6% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Verndale city is valued at $105,500, 65.2% below the national figure and 56% below the $240,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs $661 a month, 53% below the national figure, or roughly $7,932 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 18% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.4×, 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. 83.3% 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.

With 479 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Verndale city against its county rather than against national figures.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.