This interactive analysis updates the 2024 Minneapolis Youth Situational Analysis with the most current official data — the 2025 Minnesota Student Survey (including Minneapolis Public Schools for the first time in a decade), 2025 year-end public safety data, the Class of 2025 graduation results, and 2026 youth housing counts. Every figure links to its official source.
25,034 under age 5. Children per square mile: 1,881.
Versus 24% of all residents — Minneapolis youth are among the state's most diverse. ~1 in 10 school-age children statewide live below poverty.
1.32 public schools per 1,000 school-age children (2024).
MPS participated for the first time in a decade — Minneapolis youth voice is directly in the statewide dataset again.
Fewest shooting victims and shots-fired calls since before 2020. Officials credit coordination across enforcement, community groups and partner agencies.
New youth offenders committing violent crime down 66% since the Curfew Task Force began — each early contact is a referral opportunity.
First-ever gun-violence measure in the 2025 MN Student Survey — a new baseline for prevention work. Students also reported feeling safer at school than in 2022.
Current through 2023 — the most recent published data (Minnesota's Child Maltreatment Report, 2023, released late 2025; statewide 77,413 intakes, 39% screened in). Live: DHS dashboard →
2024 ACS 5-year (newest release): 25,503 teens 16–19. ACS S2301 (2024) →
Minneapolis Youth Congress remains embedded in city policy dialogue and decision-making; youth engagement is structured, compensated, and supported.
Youth-led research, testimony and public storytelling inform policy; Minneapolis advanced its UNICEF Child-Friendly City designation.
With MPS back in the Minnesota Student Survey, city youth self-reported wellbeing now shapes state and local decisions.
Seven-year rate: 83%. Statewide rates hit a record high in 2025.
Black/African American students rose to 69% (+2). Gaps remain — but the direction is right.
Anxiety and depression measures improved from 2022; ~40% of students still report at least one adverse childhood experience.
2025 subgroup rates shown where published; remaining groups update when MDE posts full tables.
Refresh from MDH school immunization data, 2025–26 school year. MDH →
2024 baseline: 296 under-24 in shelter (Oct 2023). Statewide, an estimated 13,300 youth experienced unaccompanied homelessness 2018–2025.
20 host homes · 85 emergency shelter beds · 200 transitional housing beds · 181 time-limited permanent supportive units.
Capacity vs the ~425 young people who need a bed on any given night.
Minneapolis consistently ranks at the top of the national ParkScore index.
Children 0–5 ride free; ages 6–18 $1 per ride; qualifying families always $1 via the Transportation Assistance Program; MPS students receive a free Metro Transit card each school year.