The 10 Worst Minneapolis Suburbs

The 10 Worst Minneapolis Suburbs To Live For 2024

We’ll get the ball rolling with Lexington, the absolute worst place to live around Minneapolis according to the data.

And in the world of worst rankings, Lexington beat the competition pretty handily thanks to scoring in the bottom 15% in three major categories. Income is the 14th worst in the Minneapolis area, and to make matters worse, the city ranks 13th worst when it comes to home values.

But hey, at least it’s cheap to live there. But there’s a reason for that… it’s Lexington.

You won’t feel bad about not having a great income for the area. There aren’t a bunch of places to spend your money anyway.

Welcome to Brooklyn Center. Home to KMart, Big Lots, and a lot of gas stations.

This city is 7.7 miles to Minneapolis. Income levels here are the 9th lowest in the metro area, where families bring in about $70,692 a year, which only goes so far even on a shoestring budget.

But on the bright side, there are a lot of fast food joints in the area.

Back up the highway we go for the third worst Minneapolis suburb you can live in. You might have expected to see Newport on here. While the cost of living is low, your entertainment and work options are limited. And that’s an understatement.

In terms of numbers, it’s in the worst 15% for insurance, and the adult high school dropout rate is poor compared to other Minneapolis suburbs.

But at least there are lovely parks to bring the kids during the day.

If you live in St. Paul, most likely you struggle to make ends meet every month. It ranks as the 6th lowest Minneapolis suburb for median household incomes.

Not only that, but this is the 18th worst unemployed suburb you can live in if you choose to live near Minneapolis. Remember, we looked at 111 cities for this study.

St. Paul is about 8.1 miles to downtown.

Fridley has the distinction of being a Minneapolis suburb. Which means that’s about all it has going for it.

All snarkiness aside, Fridley has the 14th lowest home values in the metro Minneapolis area, where the median price is $302,586. The median income is $235,714.

Fridley has an unemployment rate of 5.88% which ranks 6th worst.

Columbia Heights has 21,822 residents that probably know it’s a pretty crummy place to live when you look at the data. (Or, if you’ve ever been there, you don’t need to look at the data.)

Incomes are towards the bottom, and the poverty rate sits at 13.092050595512884%.

Ah, Little Canada. You rank as the 7th worst place to live around Minneapolis.

It’s the place with the 3rd most out of work residents in the Minneapolis metro area (7.83%).

West St. Paul is a city about 9.9 miles from Minneapolis, but Minneapolis probably wishes it was further away. It ranks as the 8th worst burb for 2018.

You’d be hard-pressed to find a worse place to live. West St. Paul has the 11th most uninsured people, 3rd worst incomes, and has the 19th highest unemployment rate (4.95%) in the entire Minneapolis metro area.

Homes only cost $296,144 for a reason. That’s cheap for Minneapolis standards.

If you absolutely have to live near Minneapolis, then New Hope might be a place for you to consider as it’s only the 9th worst Minneapolis suburb.

About 5.11% of residents are out of work.

Rounding out the ten worst Minneapolis suburbs to call home is South St. Paul.

Located 12.3 miles outside the city, South St. Pauls is a real pit when you look at the data. Its residents have the 9th highest unemployment rate (5.73%), and poverty is far above the area average.