Lake St. Croix BeachMN
With 1,005 residents, it is a town in Minnesota.
Is Lake St. Croix Beach a good place to live?
The best of Lake St. Croix Beach’s subject grades are an A for schools and an A− for incomes and health; the weakest is a C− for hazard risk. 12% of residents are under 18 in Lake St. Croix Beach, below both the Minnesota town median (23%) and the median of U.S. towns (22%). No town among the 274 in Minnesota we compare has a lower share of working residents who work in town than Lake St. Croix Beach. Lake St. Croix Beach is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns. Lake St. Croix Beach has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Lake St. Croix Beach stand out
Where Lake St. Croix Beach beats most towns.
1,005 people, and everyone knows the way
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
How Lake St. Croix Beach grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Minnesota), ordered by how far Lake St. Croix Beach is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
U.S. Bank Stadium and 69 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Lake St. Croix Beach. Close and well known come first.
Big draw24 mi Stadium & arenaU.S. Bank Stadium
16 mi Stadium & arenaGrand Casino Arena
23 mi Stadium & arenaHuntington Bank Stadium
25 mi Stadium & arenaTarget Field
20 mi Stadium & arenaAllianz Field
20 mi LandmarkFort SnellingPhoto credits
U.S. Bank Stadium: Darb02, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Grand Casino Arena: AlexiusHoratius, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Huntington Bank Stadium: Lectrician2, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Target Field: Lectrician2, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Allianz Field: Andy Witchger, CC BY 2.0 · Fort Snelling: en:User:The Statue With The Dictionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Moving to Lake St. Croix Beach: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Lake St. Croix Beach, 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.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Lake St. Croix Beach.
On CDC estimates, Lake St. Croix Beach is healthier than 83% of U.S. towns
Two figures for adults in Lake St. Croix Beach: 27% feel lonely, 14% report frequent mental distress. CDC measures, 32 in all: Lake St. Croix Beach beats Minnesota on 11 and trails on 1. 25% of Lake St. Croix Beach adults sleep under 7 hours.
| Lake St. Croix Beach | Minnesota towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 25% | 30% | 36% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 30% | 33% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 16% | 17% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 23% | 25% |
| What stands out | Lake St. Croix Beach | MN |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 5.1% | 8.9% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 5.1% | 7.5% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.7% | 8.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Lake St. Croix Beach has 0.3 jobs per working resident, so most workers leave town for work
8.2% of workers do their job from home in Lake St. Croix Beach. For most workers, Lake St. Croix Beach is a place to come home to: only 1% work in town. The town’s typical household income stands at $102,000. It had 156 jobs in 2023, up 77 from 2013.
| Lake St. Croix Beach | Minnesota towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 8.2% | 14% | 11% |
| Median household income | $102,000 | $90,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 8.8% | 7% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 23 minutes | 23 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
In Lake St. Croix Beach, the median age runs higher than in the typical Minnesota or U.S. town
1,005 people lived in Lake St. Croix Beach by the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate, 3.6% fewer than in 2020. The share of adults 25 and older in Lake St. Croix Beach who hold a bachelor’s degree or more: 49%.
| Lake St. Croix Beach | Minnesota towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 52.7 years | 39.9 years | 40.5 years |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 49% | 33% | 29% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±5.7 points. Across Minnesota, 49.9% of residents are women.
| Lake St. Croix Beach | MN | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 5% | 12.1% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 6.7% | 10.7% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 10.7% | 8.8% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 5.1% | 13% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 12.6% | 13.5% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 12.9% | 11.6% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 19.8% | 12.9% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 22.8% | 10.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 4.4% | 7% | 7% |
| No diploma | 1.4% | 6.1% | 10.4% |
| High school | 19.1% | 23.3% | 26% |
| Some college | 21.7% | 19.5% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 8.6% | 11.8% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 28.1% | 25.6% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 21.1% | 13.8% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 1,000, single groups can be off by several points
Top of a high hazard risk in Lake St. Croix Beach: inland flooding
In Lake St. Croix Beach, the FEMA risk score is 71 of 100. The national flood insurance program has paid 36 claims in the town since 1986. Nearly three fifths of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by tornadoes at 18%. Households here have drawn federal disaster aid in 3 declared disasters, most recently in 2019.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Snowy winters and pleasant summers: that is Lake St. Croix Beach’s year
The range runs from 6° on a January night to 83° on a July afternoon, with about 50 inches of snow a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Zillow puts the typical Lake St. Croix Beach home at about $342K
For households in Lake St. Croix Beach, the share who own their home is 97%. Over the 12 months to September 2026, the typical home gained 2.6% in value.
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
0.7% of Lake St. Croix Beach is conserved land
Walkers can cover 0.2 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve. One park or preserve covers 4 acres in Lake St. Croix Beach.
| Lake St. Croix Beach | Minnesota towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 0.7% | 4.7% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.2 miles per square mile | 0.5 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. W. R. Pettitt Park | — | 4 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Lake St. Croix Beach
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Lake St. Croix Beach
About 3 of every 100 Lake St. Croix Beach residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Minnesota.
99% of working residents leave Lake St. Croix Beach for work
Where Lake St. Croix Beach’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Lake St. Croix Beach
City in Minnesota, United States
Lake St. Croix Beach or City of Lake Saint Croix Beach is a city in Washington County, Minnesota, United States. As of the 2020 census, Lake St. Croix Beach had a population of 1,043.
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- Area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Elevation
- 692 ft
- Area code
- 651
Questions about Lake St. Croix Beach
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Lake St. Croix Beach, MN expensive?
That is 3.4 years of the area's median household income ($99,833 across the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B−.