Blooming Prairie vs Owatonna

A side-by-side comparison of Blooming Prairie and Owatonna: population, income, housing, and more.

Blooming Prairie and Owatonna are places in Minnesota. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Owatonna has the higher population (26,462 vs 1,977 in Blooming Prairie). Owatonna has the higher median household income ($81,276 vs $63,929 in Blooming Prairie). Owatonna has the higher median home value ($234,600 vs $155,800 in Blooming Prairie).

Population, income & housing

	Blooming Prairie	Owatonna
Population	1,977	26,462
Median age	40.5 yrs	40.0 yrs
Median household income	$63,929	$81,276
Median home value	$155,800	$234,600
Median gross rent	$680	$1,010
Housing units	855	11,371
Homeownership rate	86.4%	76.7%
Bachelor's degree or higher	26.1%	32.3%
Unemployment rate	1.2%	3.2%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Blooming Prairie	Owatonna
Population	1,916 → 1,977 (+3.2%)	25,685 → 26,462 (+3.0%)
Median household income	$55,357 → $63,929 (+15.5%)	$62,642 → $81,276 (+29.7%)
Median home value	$127,400 → $155,800 (+22.3%)	$166,600 → $234,600 (+40.8%)
Median gross rent	$704 → $680 (-3.4%)	$773 → $1,010 (+30.7%)

Blooming Prairie

Population

1,9161,977

Median household income

$55,357$63,929

Median home value

$127,400$155,800

Median gross rent

$704$680

Owatonna

Population

25,68526,462

Median household income

$62,642$81,276

Median home value

$166,600$234,600

Median gross rent

$773$1,010

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Blooming Prairie	Owatonna
Under 5	5.9%	5.0%
5 to 17	20.0%	19.3%
18 to 24	5.6%	7.7%
25 to 34	12.2%	11.4%
35 to 44	10.7%	13.2%
45 to 54	6.5%	11.9%
55 to 64	11.5%	12.8%
65 to 74	11.3%	10.9%
75 and over	16.1%	7.9%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Blooming Prairie	Owatonna
White (non-Hispanic)	84.9%	83.2%
Black or African American	0.0%	4.6%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.1%
Asian	0.0%	0.6%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.2%
Two or more races	1.8%	3.0%
Hispanic or Latino	13.3%	8.3%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Blooming Prairie	Owatonna
No high school diploma	9.5%	5.8%
High school graduate	26.5%	28.7%
Some college or associate's	37.8%	33.2%
Bachelor's degree	23.0%	21.4%
Graduate or professional degree	3.2%	10.9%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Blooming Prairie	Owatonna
Drove alone	74.4%	80.7%
Carpooled	3.1%	5.7%
Public transit	0.0%	1.4%
Walked	13.1%	2.7%
Bicycle	0.7%	0.3%
Worked from home	8.7%	8.4%
Other means	0.0%	0.9%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Blooming Prairie	Owatonna
1-unit, detached	83.5%	71.6%
1-unit, attached	4.0%	6.2%
2 to 4 units	2.3%	4.9%
5 to 19 units	6.0%	5.7%
20 or more units	2.9%	8.6%
Mobile home & other	1.3%	2.9%

Poverty & households

	Blooming Prairie	Owatonna
Poverty rate	5.6%	8.2%
Average household size	2.34	2.38
Mean commute (minutes)	19	18
Median year structure built	1963	1977