Tonka BayMN
A town of 1,561.
Is Tonka Bay a good place to live?
The best of Tonka Bay’s subject grades are an A+ for incomes, schools, and health; the weakest is a D− for cost of living. Tonka Bay’s going rate for rent is $2,320 a month, above both the Minnesota town median ($1,196 a month) and the median of U.S. towns ($1,185 a month). On cost of living, just 2 of Minnesota’s 573 towns do worse. Tonka Bay has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Tonka Bay stand out
Where Tonka Bay beats most towns.
99% of working residents leave Tonka Bay for work
Where Tonka Bay’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Tonka Bay grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Minnesota), ordered by how far Tonka Bay is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
U.S. Bank Stadium and 70 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Tonka Bay. Close and well known come first.
Big draw17 mi Stadium & arenaU.S. Bank Stadium
2 mi LakeLake Minnetonka
16 mi Stadium & arenaTarget Field
18 mi Stadium & arenaHuntington Bank Stadium
10 mi Theme parkValleyfair
24 mi Stadium & arenaGrand Casino ArenaPhoto credits
U.S. Bank Stadium: Darb02, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Lake Minnetonka: Dan, CC BY 2.0 · Target Field: Lectrician2, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Huntington Bank Stadium: Lectrician2, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Valleyfair: https://www.flickr.com/photos/clumpinglitter/, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Grand Casino Arena: AlexiusHoratius, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Moving to Tonka Bay: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Tonka Bay, 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 Tonka Bay.
Tonka Bay’s typical home value is about $1.14M
In Tonka Bay, 81% of households own their home, where Minnesota’s towns sit at 75% and U.S. towns at 73%.
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Residents of Tonka Bay are healthier than 95% of U.S. towns
29% of Tonka Bay adults feel lonely. This Minnesota town beats the Minnesota average on 14 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 2. Only 7 of the 272 Minnesota towns we compare have a higher share of adults who had a checkup this year than Tonka Bay. Among adults in the town, 26% sleep under 7 hours and 27% have obesity.
| Tonka Bay | Minnesota towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 16% | 17% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 30% | 36% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 35% | 35% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 23% | 25% |
| What stands out | Tonka Bay | MN |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 7.1% | 11.4% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 6% | 9.3% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 11.1% | 8.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Tonka Bay’s workers commute out
Half of commuters travel less than 12 miles. The typical household income in Tonka Bay is $156,000. For most workers, Tonka Bay is a place to come home to: only 1% work in town. Since 2013, Tonka Bay has added 34 jobs, to 222 in 2023.
| Tonka Bay | Minnesota towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $156,000 | $90,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.9% | 9.8% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 3.5% | 7% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 26 minutes | 23 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The biggest natural risk in Tonka Bay is inland flooding, at a low overall level
Expected losses in Tonka Bay break down as 43% from inland flooding and 20% from cold waves. On expected storm and flood damage, Tonka Bay sits below 77% of U.S. communities. Since 1993, 4 flood insurance claims have been paid out here.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Snowy winters and pleasant summers in Tonka Bay
July afternoons reach 82°, January nights drop to 6° and about 55 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
2.2% of the land in Tonka Bay is protected from building
0.2 miles of trail in 4 parks and preserves. For Tonka Bay, the trail network density is 0.1 miles per square mile.
| Tonka Bay | Minnesota towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.5 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 2.2% | 4.7% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Manitou Park | 0.2 mi | 9 |
| 2. Wekota Beach Park | — | 5 |
| 3. Pleasant Park | — | 3 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Tonka Bay
Colleges nearby
8 within 15 miles of the center of Tonka Bay
About 3 of every 100 Tonka Bay residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Minnesota.
About Tonka Bay
City in Minnesota, United States
Tonka Bay is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. It is on Lake Minnetonka between the upper and lower lakes. It gained some popularity in the 1880s and 1890s as a summer lake resort. The population was 1,442 at the 2020 census.
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- Area
- 1.0 sq mi
- Area code
- 952
Tonka Bay’s neighbors
3 towns share a border with Tonka Bay.
| Town | MN rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tonka Bay | — | — | D− | — | A+ | A+ |
| Shorewood | #47 | A | D | — | A+ | A+ |
| Orono | #56 | A | D | A− | A+ | A+ |
| Village of Minnetonka Beach | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Tonka Bay has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Tonka Bay and Shorewood report no FBI crime data of their own. Village of Minnetonka Beach isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Tonka Bay with a neighbor →
Questions about Tonka Bay
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Tonka Bay, MN expensive?
Yes. That is 11.4 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 D−.