Echo vs Wood Lake

A side-by-side comparison of Echo and Wood Lake: population, income, housing, and more.

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

Wood Lake has the higher population (398 vs 205 in Echo). Wood Lake has the higher median household income ($68,958 vs $65,625 in Echo). Echo has the higher median home value ($88,300 vs $85,000 in Wood Lake).

Population, income & housing

	Echo	Wood Lake
Population	205	398
Median age	53.8 yrs	46.5 yrs
Median household income	$65,625	$68,958
Median home value	$88,300	$85,000
Median gross rent	$582	$650
Housing units	120	185
Homeownership rate	84.4%	86.7%
Bachelor's degree or higher	13.4%	16.0%
Unemployment rate	2.6%	1.5%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Echo	Wood Lake
Population	288 → 205 (-28.8%)	423 → 398 (-5.9%)
Median household income	$40,417 → $65,625 (+62.4%)	$49,063 → $68,958 (+40.5%)
Median home value	$52,100 → $88,300 (+69.5%)	$66,900 → $85,000 (+27.1%)
Median gross rent	$469 → $582 (+24.1%)	$488 → $650 (+33.2%)

Echo

Population

288205

Median household income

$40,417$65,625

Median home value

$52,100$88,300

Median gross rent

$469$582

Wood Lake

Population

423398

Median household income

$49,063$68,958

Median home value

$66,900$85,000

Median gross rent

$488$650

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Echo	Wood Lake
Under 5	4.9%	4.0%
5 to 17	9.3%	16.6%
18 to 24	5.9%	7.0%
25 to 34	12.2%	9.8%
35 to 44	5.9%	11.8%
45 to 54	14.1%	17.1%
55 to 64	30.7%	13.8%
65 to 74	15.1%	16.3%
75 and over	2.0%	3.5%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Echo	Wood Lake
White (non-Hispanic)	88.8%	88.4%
Black or African American	1.0%	1.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	3.4%	1.3%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	6.8%	5.8%
Hispanic or Latino	0.0%	3.5%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Echo	Wood Lake
No high school diploma	4.9%	7.6%
High school graduate	26.2%	33.3%
Some college or associate's	55.5%	43.1%
Bachelor's degree	9.8%	12.8%
Graduate or professional degree	3.7%	3.1%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Echo	Wood Lake
Drove alone	90.4%	76.0%
Carpooled	3.5%	11.7%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	5.3%	4.6%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	0.9%	5.1%
Other means	0.0%	2.6%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Echo	Wood Lake
1-unit, detached	91.7%	96.2%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	8.3%	1.6%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.5%
Mobile home & other	0.0%	1.6%

Poverty & households

	Echo	Wood Lake
Poverty rate	20.5%	7.5%
Average household size	2.14	2.20
Mean commute (minutes)	17	28
Median year structure built	1952	1938