St. Louis Park is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota. St. Louis Park is a first ring-Suburb immediately west of Minneapolis. Its neighboring cities include Edina, Golden Valley, Minnetonka, Plymouth, Hopkins, and Minneapolis.
St. Louis Park is a progressive city that is located just west of the Twin Cities. Just minutes from downtown, residents and visitors are allowed to experience the attractions, events and excitement of a major metropolitan area, and still have the small town feel.
Our community is home to retail stores, restaurants, medical facilities, family-owned businesses, corporations, and churches and synagogues. St. Louis Park has a sound economic base with commercial, industrial and apartment development comprising more than 60 percent of the tax base. Commercial uses comprise 13.8 percent of the community's land area.
St. Louis Park has 51 parks to enjoy (11.5 percent of St. Louis Park's land is set aside for parks). Bike trails link St. Louis Park to downtown Minneapolis, the Uptown area, Hopkins and Chaska. Residents of all ages can participate in year-round recreational and educational activities offered by the city and school district.
One of St. Louis Park's strengths is our nationally recognized school system. Unlike many other suburbs, our children can attend school within our community from preschool through high school. St. Louis Park also has nine private schools serving a variety of interests.
St. Louis Park's four elementary schools are "paired." All neighborhood children attend one school for the primary grades and then move together to an intermediate school for the higher grades. Students on the east side of the district attend Peter Hobart and Susan Lindgren. Students on the west side attend Aquila and Cedar Manor. Students then all attend the St. Louis Park Junior and Senior High Schools.
Our residents speak highly of the community. In a random opinion survey conducted in 2008, 97 percent of residents consider St. Louis Park a "good" or "excellent place to live", and 99 percent said they feel welcomed in the community.
Housing Cost
Residential areas comprise the largest portion of the community. St. Louis Park offers a full range of starter homes valued at $120,000 to executive homes selling for more than $600,000. The average value of a home in St. Louis Park is $235,000.
St. Louis Park's apartment buildings offer a range of rental options: affordable to upscale. Smaller buildings with three to 15 units comprise about half of the community's apartment buildings. Larger buildings with 16 to 100 or more units comprise the remainder of St. Louis Park's multi-family housing stock.
information taken from stlouispark.org
Demographics
Population in July 2007: 44,028. Lt. Louis Park covers 10.7 square miles. It sits at an elevation of 880 feet above sea level.
Zip codes: 55426
Weather
St. Louis Park, MN climate is warm during summer when temperatures tend to be in the 70's and extremely cold during winter when temperatures tend to be in the 10's.
The warmest month of the year is July with an average maximum temperature of 83.30 degrees Fahrenheit, while the coldest month of the year is January with an average minimum temperature of 4.30 degrees Fahrenheit.
Temperature variations between night and day tend to be moderate during summer with a difference that can reach 20 degrees Fahrenheit, and fairly limited during winter with an average difference of 17 degrees Fahrenheit.
The annual average precipitation at St. Louis Park is 29.41 Inches. Rainfall in is fairly evenly distributed throughout the year. The wettest month of the year is June with an average rainfall of 4.34 Inches.
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