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A town of 1,213, organized in 1866.
Collinwood Township’s best subject grade is an A for schools; its weakest is a C for cost of living. Among 274 Minnesota towns, just 5 have a lower share of working residents who work in town than Collinwood Township. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 69% of U.S. towns. Only 10 of the 274 Minnesota towns we compare have a higher share of homes lived in by their owners than Collinwood Township. On the outdoors, just 21 of Minnesota’s 575 towns do worse. Collinwood Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
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Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Minnesota), ordered by how far Collinwood Township is from typical.
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The archive holds 2 maps from 1958 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Collinwood Township, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
Ordered by what stands out in Collinwood Township.
Jobs in Collinwood Township fell by 63 from 2013 to 2023, to 66. The average trip to work for Collinwood Township comes to 27 minutes, against 23 minutes in Minnesota’s towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns. The share of residents in Collinwood Township who live below the poverty line: 3.3%. The top destinations are Dassel (10%), Hutchinson (8%) and Litchfield (7%).
| Collinwood Township | Minnesota towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 6.4% | 14% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 3.3% | 7% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 27 minutes | 23 minutes | 25 minutes |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Expect July afternoons of 82° and January nights of 5°, with about 41 inches of snow a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
CDC measures, 32 in all: Collinwood Township beats Minnesota on 2 and trails on 6. 29% of adults feel lonely in the town, where Minnesota’s towns sit at 30% and U.S. towns at 33%. Also worth knowing: for adults locally, the share who sleep under 7 hours is 29%.
| Collinwood Township | Minnesota towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 30% | 33% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 30% | 36% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 18% | 16% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 76% | 75% | 79% |
| What stands out | Collinwood Township | MN |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 7.2% | 8.9% |
| More adults treating high blood pressure | 79.5% | 76.1% |
| More adults with COPD | 6.6% | 5.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
FEMA puts 51% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 14% to cold waves. Collinwood Township’s natural-hazard score from FEMA comes in at 55 of 100. One declared disaster, in 2001, has brought federal aid to Collinwood Township households.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Among 273 Minnesota towns, just 10 have a lower share of conserved land than Collinwood Township. 1.6 miles of trail.
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
None within 15 miles of Collinwood Township; the nearest are
About 1 of every 100 Collinwood Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Minnesota.
Where Collinwood Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Township in Minnesota, United States
Collinwood Township is a township in Meeker County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,037 at the 2000 census.
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Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.