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How Coon Rapids's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
How far does your salary go in Coon Rapids?
Your $100,000 in Coon Rapids has the same purchasing power as $94,375 in the average US city. You'd need $5,625 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.
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Within 10 points of Coon Rapids's cost index of 106, sorted by closest match.
So why do people move to Coon Rapids? The honest answer involves a few specific things the data backs up — most clearly paychecks come in above the us average and lower-than-average crime numbers, plus 2 more things worth knowing. The detail on each one is below.
The typical household in Coon Rapids pulls in $85,445 — 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.
Reported crime in Coon Rapids comes in around 2,222 per 100,000 — under the national baseline of about 3,500. Worth digging into specific neighborhoods before settling on one, but the city-level picture is on the safer side.
Average AQI in Coon Rapids comes in around 37, 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 Coon Rapids runs around 24 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 Coon Rapids'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.
Snow is just part of the winter in Coon Rapids. Average temperatures around 12°F mean the ground stays covered from December well into March, and a snowblower is less optional than aspirational.
Properly cold. Coon Rapids'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. Coon Rapids'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.
Approximately USDA Hardiness Zone 6. That's the band gardeners use to pick plants — anything rated for Zone 6 or colder should survive a typical winter in Coon Rapids. (The estimate is derived from our winter-temperature data; the official USDA map uses station-level annual minimums and may differ by half a zone.)
Roughly 873 feet (266 m). That's modest elevation — comparable to most inland-Midwest and Southern cities.
Middle of the pack. Coon Rapids comes in around 2,222 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. Coon Rapids'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.
Coon Rapids scores 42 out of 100 on Walk Score, which translates to "car-dependent but not aggressively so". Transit Score is 24 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 $74,172 to live in Coon Rapids 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 Coon Rapids runs about $1,393/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.