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Ramsey County · Minnesota

ZIP code 55105

Population, income, housing costs and the sales tax rate charged on purchases inside ZIP 55105 — Census 2019-2023 ACS 5-year, no modelled estimates.
Population
27,470

ZCTA residents

Median income
$108,200

Household, past 12 months

Median home
$453,300

Owner-occupied value

Sales tax
9.875%

Combined state + local

Quick answer

ZIP 55105 sits in Ramsey County, Minnesota and is home to 27,470 people. Median household income is $108,200, the median home is worth $453,300 and median gross rent is $1,240. 67.3% of households own their home, and purchases are taxed at 9.875% combined.

County
Ramsey County

FIPS 27123

State
Minnesota (MN)

880 ZIPs covered

Area codes
218, 612, 651, 763, 952

NANPA codes serving this area

Metro area
St. Paul

Rate jurisdiction used for tax

The numbers for 55105

American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZCTA.

Population
27,470ZIP 55105 residents
Median household income
$108,200Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value
$453,300Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent
$1,240Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age
34.6 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate
67.3%Owner-occupied households

ZIP 55105 in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

ZIP 55105 is a small city in Ramsey County, Minnesota, with 27,470 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #67 of 880 ranked by population — larger than 92% of them. The median age here is 34.6 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in ZIP 55105 earn a median of $108,200 a year, 37.8% above the national figure of $78,538. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 7.2% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 55105 is valued at $453,300, 49.4% above the national figure, while median gross rent runs $1,240 a month, 11.8% below the national figure, or roughly $14,880 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 13.8% 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 4.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 67.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

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.

Reading ZIP 55105 in context

How 55105 sits inside Ramsey County and Minnesota.

ZIP 55105 is tabulated inside Ramsey County, Minnesota, one of 20 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 880 across Minnesota. This is a mid-sized suburban ZIP inside a county that is split across many delivery areas. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 55105 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 55105 reports a median household income of $108,200, 38% above the $78,125 county median, and 43% above the $75,417 typical MN ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $453,300, 56% above the county figure and 105% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $1,240 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

A taxable purchase made inside 55105 carries 9.875% at the register, assembled from the St. Paul jurisdiction stack: the Minnesota state rate plus every county, municipal and special district levy that reaches this address. Because those district boundaries were drawn for schools, transit and hospital funding rather than for mail delivery, two addresses inside 55105 can legitimately fall under different totals — the rate shown here is the one that applies to the dominant jurisdiction.

Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 55105 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.

Sales tax in 55105

What a purchase inside this ZIP costs at checkout.

Rate applied
9.875%St. Paul jurisdiction stack
Tax on $100
$10Rounded to the dollar
Tax on $1,000
$99Before any exemptions

This ZIP falls inside the St. Paul rate area, so state, county, city and district levies are published here as a full stack.

Affordability in this ZIP

Derived from the Census medians above — indicative, not an offer.

Rent burden
14%Median rent ÷ median income
Price-to-income
4.2×Home value ÷ household income
Est. mortgage
$2,352/mo20% down, 30-yr at 6.75%
Poverty rate
7.2%Residents below poverty line

A rent burden above 30% is the federal threshold for cost-burdened households, and a price-to-income multiple above 4× is generally considered a stretched housing market. The mortgage figure is principal and interest only — taxes, insurance and HOA dues are extra.

How 55105 compares

ZIP 55105 against the median ZIP in Ramsey County and across Minnesota.

MeasureZIP 55105County medianState medianvs state
Median household income$108,200$78,125$75,417+43%
Median home value$453,300$291,200$221,650+105%
Median gross rent$1,240$1,322$925+34%
Population27,47026,7851,800+1426%

Medians are computed across the 20 ZIP areas in Ramsey County and the 880 ZIP areas in Minnesota.

Statewide rank

Where this ZIP places among all 880 Minnesota ZIP areas.

Income

richer than 89% of 862 state ZIPs

#94
Home value

above 95% of 856 state ZIPs

#39
Population

larger than 92% of 880 state ZIPs

#67

Comparable ZIP codes

Minnesota ZIP areas with almost the same household income.

ZIPCountyIncomeHome valueRent
55804St. Louis County$108,231$286,800$1,346
55077Dakota County$108,314$496,800$1,514
56723Polk County$108,333$214,400$1,037
55390Wright County$107,500$308,500$1,227
55967Mower County$107,500$273,100$1,318
55126Ramsey County$109,017$366,400$1,507

Nearby ZIP codes

Other ZIP codes filed under Ramsey County.

Adjacent ZIP Codes

Other ZIP codes in Ramsey County, Minnesota.

ZIP 55105 questions

Common questions about this ZIP code.

Where is ZIP code 55105?
ZIP 55105 lies mostly in Ramsey County, Minnesota. County assignment follows the largest share of land area, so a ZIP straddling a county line is filed under its dominant county.
What sales tax do I pay in 55105?
Purchases are taxed at 9.875% combined, built from the St. Paul jurisdiction stack.
Is 55105 expensive to live in?
Median rent runs $1,240 a month, about 14% of median household income, and the median home is worth $453,300 — +105% against the typical Minnesota ZIP.
Is a ZCTA the same as a postal ZIP code?
Not exactly. The Census builds ZIP Code Tabulation Areas from the ZIP codes of addresses inside each census block, so a ZCTA can differ slightly from the USPS delivery route of the same number, and PO-box-only ZIPs have no ZCTA at all.

Related pages for this area.

Sources & transparency

Every figure on this page is a published estimate for ZIP Code Tabulation Area 55105, except the affordability ratios and mortgage estimate, which we derive from those medians and label as estimates.

Last reviewed December 2024. Figures are published for reference and can change; verify with the source agency before filing or contracting. How we build and check this data.