Local Logic · Neighborhood Guides · 2026
refreshedThe best Minneapolis neighborhoods for how you live
According to Local Logic, Minneapolis is a city of bikes and parkland. No metro on this site rates higher for cycling, and every city neighborhood has a large amount of park space nearby. The carries walkers and riders across the Mississippi, anchors the south side, and the spans both riverbanks.
Where should you live in Minneapolis?
See which Minneapolis neighborhoods fit young professionals, families, and retirees best — each guide below lists everything it covers. A number means Local Logic ranks that neighborhood in that guide, and it ranks within that guide only: a neighborhood two guides cover carries a different number in each, and this page names no single winner across them, only a shortlist per guide. A name with no number is a neighborhood the guide discusses without ranking. As you read a guide, the map frames its picks; select any neighborhood to hold it there.
Best for young professionals
7 ranked · 4 also namedBest for families with school-age kids
7 rankedBest for retirees
7 ranked · 1 also namedWhat is it like to live in Minneapolis?
Local Logic scores every neighborhood in Minneapolis on sixteen dimensions of daily life, from transit and walkability to groceries, schools, and quiet. These are the dimensions where Minneapolis reads most distinctly: the metro as a whole sits at an extreme, or its neighborhoods differ from one another the most. Each row gives the metro's own score, the range its neighborhoods cover, and the highest-scoring neighborhoods among those the Minneapolis guides cover — not always the metro's single highest scorer.
What is the Minneapolis housing market like?
The latest month of Local Logic's metro market series: median sold price by property type, its direction against the same month a year earlier, price per square foot, and homes sold.
| Property type | Median sold | Vs year earlier | $ / sq ft | Homes sold |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All residential | $389k | ▲1% | $200 | 3,823 |
| Single-family | $411k | ▲2% | $203 | 3,110 |
| Condo / townhome | $275k | ▼1% | $186 | 655 |
Median sold price by property type · quarterly
Figures are September 2026; the trend spans October 2024 to September 2026, metro-wide, according to Local Logic. Neighborhood-level market data lives on each profile.
Who lives in Minneapolis?
These metro-wide figures sketch who lives in Minneapolis: how people get to work, whether they own or rent, how many households include children, and what a typical household earns. According to Local Logic, each is a metro aggregate — one number for 95 neighborhoods that differ sharply. Select any figure to see the five that sit highest on it, mapped.
These metro-wide figures sketch who lives in Minneapolis: how people get to work, whether they own or rent, how many households include children, and what a typical household earns. According to Local Logic, each is a metro aggregate — one number for 95 neighborhoods that differ sharply, so the five that sit highest on each are named below.
Where each of these runs highest
Highest share of households with children: East Phillips 59% · Jordan 44% · Folwell 44% · Armatage 43% · Page 42% — top 5 of 89
Highest household income: Lynnhurst $175k · Page $159k · Fulton $150k · Hale $139k · Cedar-Isles-Dean $139k — top 5 of 89
Highest renter share: Marcy Holmes 92% · Ventura Village 92% · Cedar Riverside 90% · Lowry Hill East 88% · Phillips West 87% — top 5 of 89
Each fact ranks only the neighborhoods with 500+ households that report it (95 in the metro).
What is Minneapolis known for?
The civic landmarks and iconic venues Local Logic plots across Minneapolis — select any to see it on the map.
Where do you catch a game?· 1
- Target Field Stadium · North Loop
Where's the art and culture?· 4
- First Avenue Performing arts venue · Downtown West
- Minneapolis Institute of Art Museum · Whittier
- Walker Art Center Museum · Lowry Hill
- Fort Snelling Monument
Where do you get outdoors?· 1
- Minnesota Zoo Zoo
Where are the universities?· 2
- University of Minnesota University
- Augsburg University University · Cedar Riverside
Where's the seat of government?· 1
- Minneapolis City Hall Civic building · Downtown West
What defines the skyline?· 2
- Mall of America Landmark building
- IDS Center Landmark building · Downtown West
Where do you eat?· 1
- Matt's Bar & Grill Bars & nightlife · Powderhorn Park
Common questions
What does a home cost in Minneapolis?
The median sold price across the Minneapolis metro was $389k in September 2026, according to Local Logic's metro market series. That figure blends every residential type, and the gap inside it is wide: single-family houses sold above it, condos and townhomes well below. It also reaches past the city line to St. Paul and the outer suburbs, so it describes the market around the neighborhoods on this page rather than any one of them; the market table here breaks the same month out by type.
Can you get around Minneapolis without a car?
Inside the city, more often than the region suggests. According to Local Logic, the Minneapolis metro is among the easiest to drive of any metro on this site, and its transit serves only some trips. The city's own neighborhoods read differently: almost all of them rate above the metro for cycling, and most rate above it for transit and walking, led by No. 1Downtown West, No. 3Loring Park and the blocks around . The suburbs scored here sit at the other end, every one rating below the metro for transit and above the typical city neighborhood for driving.
How much park space does Minneapolis have?
A lot, and it is spread across the whole city rather than pooled in a few districts. According to Local Logic, every Minneapolis neighborhood has a large amount of park space nearby, and nearly half reach the top band, with exceptional park space within a few minutes' walk. The typical city neighborhood rates higher for it than the metro as a whole. Theodore Wirth Park runs along the city's western edge, and sits in the parkland near the Mississippi in the southeast.
How much of the Minneapolis area does this page cover?
Local Logic scores 95 places around Minneapolis, each on sixteen Location Score dimensions computed at address level. Most are neighborhoods inside the city; the rest are a curated set of whole suburbs, from Edina and St. Louis Park to Eden Prairie and Burnsville. The snapshot tracks 199 geographies in all, and 104 of them fold onto 50 others: many Minneapolis neighborhoods carry older platted names inside them, so Diamond Lake Acres, Diamond Lake Highlands and Diamond Lake Terrace are counted as part of Diamond Lake, never beside it. St. Paul, a separate city, is not scored here.
How to use this page
Follow the audience guide that matches your move — young professionals, families, or retirees — for a ranking weighted to that audience. According to Local Logic, neighborhoods across Minneapolis differ most on quiet, high schools, and cafés — so decide which of those matters most to you, then weigh each guide's picks against it. Every guide carries the full sixteen-score breakdown, provenance, and market data for each pick.
Methodology
Each neighborhood is scored on sixteen Location Score dimensions: walkability, cycling, transit, car-friendliness, groceries, shopping, cafés, restaurants, nightlife, primary and high schools, daycares, quiet, vibrant, parks, and wellness. Scores are shown out of 10, absolute, computed at address-level from validated infrastructure and points-of-interest data. According to Local Logic's methodology, the best-of-overall ranking is led by livability distinctiveness — how widely a neighborhood beats the Minneapolis metro baseline across the sixteen scores — because the scores are descriptive, not inherently good or bad, so a flat average of them is not a quality signal. Market data (median sold price, days on market, sold-to-asking) breaks ties only; absolute price never sets a rank.
Coverage
Local Logic scores all 95 Minneapolis neighborhoods. The Minneapolis metro tracks 199 units in all; 104 are plats folded into a recognizable neighborhood, so rankings run across the 95 that remain. This page names the set that leads overall or ranks highest for an audience. Each audience guide carries its picks' underlying scores, score components, twelve-month median sold price, and median days on market.
What this page answers
This page answers which Minneapolis neighborhoods lead overall and which top each audience ranking. Findings are dated — the short answer carries the snapshot date. The audience guides carry the full rankings and per-pick breakdowns for young professionals, families, and retirees — the pages to consult once you know which audience fits.