Best Places for Remote Workers in Minnesota
Places that combine airport access with a lower cost of living for anyone who can work from anywhere.
What this list weighs: No hard metric yet -- broadband quality is a likely future place_metrics field.
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Learn more3 places in Minnesota
Listed alphabetically, not ranked -- we don't have a defensible scoring methodology to rank these against each other yet, so we won't pretend to.
Best fits families and young professionals prioritizing a genuinely below-average crime rate and Dakota County's genuinely lowest-in-metro property tax rate, plus remote workers and frequent flyers drawn to Eagan's real, disclosed proximity to MSP International Airport.
Read the full page →Best fits families and young professionals in healthcare, medtech, or manufacturing drawn to Maple Grove's real Medical Alley employer cluster and Osseo Area Schools' large, established district, plus remote workers wanting a genuine northwestern-suburb identity distinct from Eagan and Woodbury.
Read the full page →Best fits affordability-focused families and remote workers drawn to Moorhead's genuinely lower housing costs and its real, four-college regional identity shared with the broader Fargo-Moorhead metro, who are comfortable weighing the real, disclosed Red River flood risk and above-average property tax rate honestly.
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