Best PlacesSt. Louis Park, MN Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around St. Louis Park, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. The averages are not the whole story, and the strongest areas score well above them. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
St. Louis Park ranks 235th of 2,098 U.S. cities on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on fast internet by a wide margin, and noise is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in St. Louis Park
BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.
The best areas in St. Louis Park
The parts of St. Louis Park, ranked by the BestNeighborhood standard score across every neighborhood, highest scoring first.
Lenox
Minikahda Vista
Minnehaha
Scores across St. Louis Park run from about the 34th to the 99th percentile nationally. The map is where that becomes a choice of area.
St. Louis Park's strengths and weaknesses
Where St. Louis Park ranks high
- Internet speedBetter than 99% of cities
- BikingBetter than 97% of cities
- Health outlookBetter than 97% of cities
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 95% of cities
- TransitBetter than 94% of cities
Where St. Louis Park ranks low
- QuietBetter than only 2% of cities
- Cheap childcare$1,682 a month, better than only 8% of cities
- Crime safetyBetter than only 19% of cities
- Local economyBetter than only 27% of cities
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 28% of cities
What it costs to buy a home in St. Louis Park
A household needs to earn about $111,000 a year to comfortably buy the median St. Louis Park home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $111,461, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
Where the monthly payment goes
Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses St. Louis Park's effective rate of 1.14%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 9 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in St. Louis Park
St. Louis Park runs younger than the country, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for St. Louis Park.
Who works in St. Louis Park, and how
Work in St. Louis Park centers on health care & social and professional & technical. Unemployment is low, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 65%
- Work from home 28%
- Transit, walk, or bike 6%
Life in St. Louis Park
St. Louis Park has more parkland per resident than 95% of cities. That concentrates in some parts of St. Louis Park and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in St. Louis Park, month by month
St. Louis Park sees roughly 114 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 87 degrees. January highs sit near 27, with lows near 10. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 27° | 18° | 10° |
| April | 58° | 46° | 35° |
| July | 87° | 75° | 65° |
| October | 62° | 51° | 41° |
Flying in and out of St. Louis Park
Minneapolis-St Paul International/Wold-Chamberlain sits about 8 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 17.5 million passengers in 2025, with 195 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around St. Louis Park
Schools across St. Louis Park average a B, better than 66% of cities.
Top elementary schools
- Normandale ElementaryA+ · 78% proficient
- Xinxing AcademyA · 70% proficient
- Park Spanish Immersion ElementaryA− · 58% proficient
Top middle schools
- South View MiddleA− · 58% proficient
- Hopkins North Junior HighB+ · 49% proficient
- St. Louis Park Middle SchoolB− · 41% proficient
Top high schools
- Edina Senior HighA · 75% proficient
- Hopkins Senior HighB+ · 55% proficient
- St. Louis Park Senior HighB · 47% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every St. Louis Park school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
St. Louis Park measure by measure
Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare St. Louis Park against the other 2,097 cities.
Who St. Louis Park suits
Remote workers
Cost of living against local pay beats 86% of cities, internet is fast and widely advertised, and 28% already work from home.
Retirees
The weather beats 67% of cities and health care access beats 73%.
Common questions about living in St. Louis Park
Is St. Louis Park a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, St. Louis Park ranks 235th of 2,098 cities. It scores highest on fast internet, biking, and population health, and lowest on noise and childcare costs. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is St. Louis Park expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $404,733. The overall cost of living runs about 10% below the national average. Set against a $111,461 median income, cost of living beats 86% of cities.
Is St. Louis Park safe?
St. Louis Park is safer than 19% of cities. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $436 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in St. Louis Park?
July highs average about 87 degrees, and January highs near 27 with lows near 10. That works out to about 114 pleasant days a year, more than 67% of cities.
What are the best neighborhoods in St. Louis Park?
Using the default rankings, the highest-scoring areas are Lenox, Minikahda Vista, and Minnehaha. The ranked list and the re-weightable map above let you re-sort them for your own priorities.
Compare St. Louis Park with other cities
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to St. Louis Park. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in St. Louis Park represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.
St. Louis Park detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for St. Louis Park: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in St. Louis Park: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of St. Louis Park: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in St. Louis Park: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
St. Louis Park detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
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