ZIP 56310 vs ZIP 56321

This side-by-side compares ZIP 56310 (Avon, MN) and ZIP 56321 (Collegeville, MN) using the same Census ACS 5-Year table fields for both — no averages swapped in, no national proxies. ZIP 56310 has a population of 5,120 at 28 people per square mile, while ZIP 56321 has 1,536 at 921 per square mile. That difference in population size and density alone reshapes how every other metric should be interpreted — a higher-income ZIP with 1,200 residents behaves very differently from one with 45,000.

On income and education, ZIP 56310 reports a median household income of $105,164 against — in ZIP 56321, with per-capita income of $44,167 vs $14,931. The share of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher is 26.3% in 56310 and 81.5% in 56321. Poverty rate reads 5.7% vs 37.9%, and unemployment 2.1% vs 8.4% — these four fields alone drive most of the difference in the scorecard grades you will see for each ZIP.

Housing separates these two ZIPs further: median home value sits at $300,500 in 56310 versus — in 56321, with median rent of $1,064 and — per month respectively. Homeownership rate is 85.7% vs —. When reading the comparison table below, focus on paired metrics rather than single winners — a ZIP with lower home values and lower income is not strictly "worse" if rent-to-income ratios and commute times land in the same zone. Every value is pulled from the exact same ACS table so the two columns are genuinely comparable.