Cost of Living
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How Brooklyn Park's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
How far does your salary go in Brooklyn Park?
Your $100,000 in Brooklyn Park has the same purchasing power as $94,769 in the average US city. You'd need $5,231 more here to maintain that standard of living.
Demographics and workforce data from the US Census ACS 5-Year.
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Climate, safety, and walkability indicators.
See a side-by-side breakdown of cost of living, housing, and salaries.
Popular comparisons
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Within 10 points of Brooklyn Park's cost index of 106, sorted by closest match.
These are the reasons people actually move to Brooklyn Park, ordered roughly by what shows up loudest in the data. A higher-income labor market than the national norm and low unemployment, plenty of openings lead, plus 2 more things worth knowing — the rest unpacked below.
The typical household in Brooklyn Park pulls in $82,271 — comfortably above the US median. Combined with the cost of living here, the income-to-expense ratio works out better than a quick look at either number in isolation would suggest.
At about 3.7% unemployment, Brooklyn Park's labor market is running on the tight side. Easier to land a role, easier to negotiate, easier to leave one job for a better one — the practical things that matter when you're actually looking.
Average AQI in Brooklyn Park comes in around 38, well into the "good" band. Clean air isn't a thing you appreciate until you've lived somewhere it wasn't — and this is the side of that line you want to be on.
Average commute time in Brooklyn Park runs around 23 minutes one-way — short enough that it doesn't restructure your day. Compared to the 45-plus-minute commutes that are normal in major metros, the difference adds up to a real lifestyle gap.
Reasons are pulled from Brooklyn Park's actual data — Census ACS, BLS, BEA, NOAA, EPA AQS, FBI, and Walk Score. We don't list positives that aren't supported by the numbers, which is why different cities show different sections.
Brooklyn Park does winter the real way. Averages around 12°F keep snow on the ground for weeks at a time, and lakes and rivers tend to freeze hard enough to walk on.
Properly cold. Brooklyn Park's winter sits around 12°F on average — and that's the average, meaning plenty of nights drop well below zero. People here own gear.
Reliably warm. Brooklyn Park's summer averages around 81°F, the kind of heat where you remember to leave the house before noon for outdoor things and accept that the back of your shirt will be wet by lunchtime.
Zone 6, give or take a half-zone. Brooklyn Park's typical winter low puts it in that band on the USDA Hardiness map, which is what nurseries label plants against. Use Zone 6 as your starting filter; the USDA's interactive map is more precise for borderline cases.
Roughly 863 feet (263 m). That's modest elevation — comparable to most inland-Midwest and Southern cities.
Middle of the pack. Brooklyn Park comes in around 3,708 per 100,000, basically the national average. The interesting question is usually which neighborhood, not which city — that's where the real variation lives.
It's a middle-of-the-road US city on cost. Brooklyn Park's index of 106 sits within a few points of the national average — your money buys roughly what it would in a typical American metro.
Brooklyn Park scores 45 out of 100 on Walk Score, which translates to "car-dependent but not aggressively so". Transit Score is 33 out of 100. Some neighborhoods buck the citywide average; the dense inner cores are usually noticeably more walkable than the city number suggests.
As a rule of thumb, plan on about $73,864 to live in Brooklyn Park the way a $70,000 earner lives in a typical US city. The math gets less forgiving the lower you go below that. Median rent in Brooklyn Park runs about $1,244/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.