Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
The biggest place to walk is Kraemer Lake-Wildwood County Park, 254 acres with 5 miles of trail. St. Joseph Township has fewer than 1,000 residents, too few for fair grades; the figures below are still real.
Where St. Joseph Township beats most towns.
1,924 counted in 2010 and 946 in 2020; an estimated 986 in 2025.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
Census counts: 292 in 1880, 7,029 in 2020. The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 1869 and 3 maps from 1965 on.
Who provides power, water and the rest in St. Joseph 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 St. Joseph Township.
The median commute is under 9 miles. Employers in St. Joseph Township added 67 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 193. For most workers, St. Joseph Township is a place to come home to: only 1% work in town. Among residents in the town, 3.1% live below the poverty line, where Minnesota’s towns sit at 7% and U.S. towns at 9.6%.
| St. Joseph Township | Minnesota towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 3.1% | 7% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.2% | 9.8% | 8% |
| Work from home | 16% | 14% | 11% |
| Median household income | $100,000 | $90,000 | $80,000 |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The risk rating from FEMA for St. Joseph Township comes to 27 of 100, against 40 of 100 in Minnesota’s towns and 44 of 100 across U.S. towns. Households here have drawn federal disaster aid once, in 2001. Expected losses in St. Joseph Township break down as 49% from inland flooding and 18% from tornadoes.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Summer afternoons peak near 81° in July, and January nights bottom out around 3°; snowfall runs to about 57 inches a winter.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
St. Joseph Township: 28% of adults have high blood pressure. Against the Minnesota average, St. Joseph Township comes out ahead on 1 CDC measures out of 32, and behind on 8. Only 6 of the 272 Minnesota towns we compare have a higher share of adults who have been diagnosed with depression than St. Joseph Township.
| St. Joseph Township | Minnesota towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 16% | 17% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 25% | 23% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 31% | 35% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 74% | 75% | 79% |
| What stands out | St. Joseph Township | MN |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 7.3% | 8.5% |
| More adults facing food insecurity | 16.4% | 11.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Adults 35 to 64 are 42% of residents (38% statewide). St. Joseph Township’s median age comes in at 47.1 years. Since 2020, St. Joseph Township has grown 4.2%, to 986 residents in the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate. College graduates make up just over a third of adults 25 and older, against 39% across Minnesota.
| St. Joseph Township | Minnesota towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 47.1 years | 39.9 years | 40.5 years |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 35% | 33% | 29% |
| Under 18 | 22% | 23% | 22% |
Somewhere between 29% and 60% women
The Census survey reached too few of St. Joseph Township’s residents to say more: its margin here is ±15.8 points. Across Minnesota, 49.9% of residents are women.
| St. Joseph Township | MN | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 7.7% | 12.1% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 13.8% | 10.7% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 11.2% | 8.8% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 6.9% | 13% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 9.2% | 13.5% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 12.4% | 11.6% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 20.5% | 12.9% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 11.1% | 10.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 7% | 7% | 7% |
| No diploma | 6% | 6.1% | 10.4% |
| High school | 24% | 23.3% | 26% |
| Some college | 19.9% | 19.5% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 14.5% | 11.8% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 25.3% | 25.6% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 10.1% | 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
Trails run 13 miles in 1 park or preserve. The density of trails for St. Joseph Township comes to 0.6 miles per square mile.
| St. Joseph Township | Minnesota towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 1.7% | 4.7% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.6 miles per square mile | 0.5 | 0.4 |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Kraemer Lake-Wildwood County Park | 5 mi | 254 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
5 within 15 miles of the center of St. Joseph Township
About 7 of every 100 St. Joseph Township residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Minnesota.
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
City in Minnesota, United States
St. Joseph or Saint Joseph is a city in Stearns County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 7,029 at the 2020 census. It is home to the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University. St. Joseph is part of the St. Cloud metropolitan area. The unincorporated Florida community of St. Joseph, Florida, is named after the Minnesota city.
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St. Joseph Township has fewer than 1,000 residents, too few for fair grades; the figures below are still real.