Ravenna TownshipMN
A town of 2,282.
Is Ravenna Township a good place to live?
Ravenna Township’s best subject grade is an A− for incomes; its weakest is a C− for walkability. Only 3 of the 274 Minnesota towns we compare have a higher share of households owning their home than Ravenna Township. Ravenna Township's schools outperform 74% of the state's. On civic life, just 19 of Minnesota’s 572 towns do worse. Ravenna Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
99% of working residents leave Ravenna Township for work
Where Ravenna Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Ravenna Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Minnesota), ordered by how far Ravenna Township is from typical.
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Moving to Ravenna Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Ravenna 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.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Ravenna Township.
Ravenna Township ranks healthier than 76% of the country’s towns
Ravenna Township beats the Minnesota average on 5 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 29% of adults sleep under 7 hours in Ravenna Township, close to Minnesota’s towns (30%) and below U.S. towns (36%). 15% of Ravenna Township adults report frequent mental distress.
| Ravenna Township | Minnesota towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 30% | 36% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 30% | 33% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 16% | 17% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 76% | 75% | 79% |
| What stands out | Ravenna Township | MN |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 9.4% | 11.4% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 7.7% | 9.3% |
| More adults with arthritis | 24.7% | 22.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
A smaller share of working residents in Ravenna Township work locally than in the typical Minnesota or U.S. town
0.7% of working residents work locally in Ravenna Township, below both the Minnesota town median (9.8%) and the median of U.S. towns (8%). Since 2013, Ravenna Township has added 32 jobs, to 77 in 2023. Ravenna Township’s median household income is $131,000.
| Ravenna Township | Minnesota towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $131,000 | $90,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 23 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 1.6% | 7% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.7% | 9.8% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
In Ravenna Township, expect snowy winters and pleasant summers
Ravenna Township has cold, snowy winters and pleasant summers. July afternoons reach 83°, January nights drop to 7° and about 41 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Fewer young adults than Minnesota overall
Adults 18 to 34 are 14% of residents (22% statewide); adults 35 to 64 are 45% of residents (38% statewide). 27% of residents are under 18 in Ravenna Township. Ravenna Township has lost 2.9% of its people since 2020, down to 2,282 in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate.
| Ravenna Township | Minnesota towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 18 | 27% | 23% | 22% |
| Aged 65 or older | 14% | 18% | 18% |
| Median age | 38.9 years | 39.9 years | 40.5 years |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
Somewhere between 39% and 61% women
The Census survey reached too few of Ravenna Township’s residents to say more: its margin here is ±11.2 points. Across Minnesota, 49.9% of residents are women.
| Ravenna Township | MN | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 16.6% | 12.1% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 10.8% | 10.7% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 5.7% | 8.8% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 7.8% | 13% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 13.4% | 13.5% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 15.9% | 11.6% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 15.9% | 12.9% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 9% | 10.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 4.8% | 7% | 7% |
| No diploma | 3.5% | 6.1% | 10.4% |
| High school | 21.9% | 23.3% | 26% |
| Some college | 25% | 19.5% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 17.6% | 11.8% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 25.2% | 25.6% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 6.8% | 13.8% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 2,300, single groups can be off by several points
Ravenna Township has set aside 2.1% of its land for conservation
1.3 miles of trail in 2 parks and preserves. The trail density in Ravenna Township is 0.1 miles per square mile.
| Ravenna Township | Minnesota towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.5 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 2.1% | 4.7% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Gores Pool #3 Wildlife Management Area | — | 2,774 |
| 2. Richard J. Dorer Memorial Hardwood State Forest | — | 107 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Moderate risk in Ravenna Township, with inland flooding at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 51% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Everything we know about Ravenna Township
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Ravenna Township
About 4 of every 100 Ravenna Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Minnesota.
About Ravenna Township
Township in Minnesota, United States
Ravenna Township is a township in Dakota County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 2,354 at the 2020 census. Ravenna Township was organized in 1860, and named after Ravenna, Ohio.
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- Area
- 22 sq mi
- Elevation
- 764 ft
Ravenna Township’s neighbors
6 towns share a border with Ravenna Township.
| Town | MN rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ravenna Township | — | — | B+ | — | B+ | A− |
| Welch Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Marshan Township | — | — | B | — | B+ | A− |
| Hastings | #69 | A | B | B | B+ | A− |
| Denmark Township | — | — | C | — | B+ | A− |
Ravenna Township, Marshan Township and Denmark Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Ravenna Township, Marshan Township and Denmark Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Welch Township isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Ravenna Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Ravenna Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Ravenna Township, MN expensive?
Not for the area. 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+.