Mendota Heights vs Sunfish Lake

A side-by-side comparison of Mendota Heights and Sunfish Lake: population, income, housing, and more.

Mendota Heights and Sunfish Lake are places in Minnesota. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Mendota Heights has the higher population (11,644 vs 594 in Sunfish Lake). Sunfish Lake has the higher median household income ($250,001 vs $132,935 in Mendota Heights). Sunfish Lake has the higher median home value ($1,109,000 vs $504,100 in Mendota Heights).

Population, income & housing

	Mendota Heights	Sunfish Lake
Population	11,644	594
Median age	46.8 yrs	46.3 yrs
Median household income	$132,935	$250,001
Median home value	$504,100	$1,109,000
Median gross rent	$1,557	—
Housing units	4,879	217
Homeownership rate	80.3%	98.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher	67.9%	76.9%
Unemployment rate	1.0%	2.7%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Mendota Heights	Sunfish Lake
Population	11,289 → 11,644 (+3.1%)	542 → 594 (+9.6%)
Median household income	$121,214 → $132,935 (+9.7%)	$250,001 → $250,001 (+0.0%)
Median home value	$392,600 → $504,100 (+28.4%)	$1,011,700 → $1,109,000 (+9.6%)
Median gross rent	$1,127 → $1,557 (+38.2%)	—

Mendota Heights

Population

11,28911,644

Median household income

$121,214$132,935

Median home value

$392,600$504,100

Median gross rent

$1,127$1,557

Sunfish Lake

Population

542594

Median household income

$250,001$250,001

Median home value

$1,011,700$1,109,000

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Mendota Heights	Sunfish Lake
Under 5	5.4%	3.4%
5 to 17	16.2%	19.9%
18 to 24	7.1%	6.7%
25 to 34	7.9%	5.4%
35 to 44	11.9%	13.8%
45 to 54	11.2%	11.1%
55 to 64	15.9%	16.0%
65 to 74	14.1%	15.7%
75 and over	10.4%	8.1%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Mendota Heights	Sunfish Lake
White (non-Hispanic)	79.4%	88.7%
Black or African American	0.8%	0.3%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.1%	0.0%
Asian	3.8%	3.7%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.9%	0.0%
Two or more races	11.1%	3.0%
Hispanic or Latino	3.9%	4.2%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Mendota Heights	Sunfish Lake
No high school diploma	1.8%	1.2%
High school graduate	7.7%	8.2%
Some college or associate's	22.6%	13.7%
Bachelor's degree	37.7%	34.4%
Graduate or professional degree	30.2%	42.5%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Mendota Heights	Sunfish Lake
Drove alone	66.1%	66.5%
Carpooled	3.6%	2.5%
Public transit	0.8%	0.7%
Walked	0.6%	0.7%
Bicycle	0.4%	0.0%
Worked from home	28.1%	29.2%
Other means	0.5%	0.4%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Mendota Heights	Sunfish Lake
1-unit, detached	62.2%	100.0%
1-unit, attached	15.2%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	5.3%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	1.4%	0.0%
20 or more units	15.8%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	0.1%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Mendota Heights	Sunfish Lake
Poverty rate	2.6%	0.5%
Average household size	2.44	2.94
Mean commute (minutes)	21	20
Median year structure built	1983	1984