Coon Rapids real estate.
Our home office is here: Anoka County's second-largest city, on the east bank of the Mississippi.
Coon Rapids covers 22.6 square miles on the east bank of the Mississippi, twelve miles north of Minneapolis by the city's own reckoning. The Census Bureau's 2025 estimate puts it at 64,193. It is Anoka County's second-largest city, not its largest: the 2020 census counted 63,599 here against Blaine's 70,222, and Blaine has pulled further ahead since. Our primary office is at 1740 116th Avenue NW, so this is the market we work daily.
The city filled in fast and in one long stretch. Of 25,346 housing units counted in the 2020-2024 ACS, 18,828 (three of every four) went up between 1960 and 1999, and the 1980s alone account for 6,549. Only 3,140 units date to 2000 or later, and just 250 to 2020 or later. Buyers here shop a resale market, not a new-construction one.
Coon Rapids Boulevard is where the change is concentrated. The city's framework plan puts new neighborhood commercial and higher-density housing in four master-planned nodes it calls Ports: Evergreen, Riverwalk, Campus Square and Wellness. Port Riverwalk brought 136 detached townhomes between Egret Boulevard and Zilla Street in 2021. Mercy Hospital, a Level II trauma center at 4050 Coon Rapids Boulevard, and Anoka-Ramsey Community College at 11200 Mississippi Boulevard NW anchor the corridor.
The housing
Detached single-family leads at 15,707 of 25,346 units in the 2020-2024 ACS, with 4,336 attached townhomes and 2,128 units in buildings of 50 or more. Owners hold 18,601 of 24,858 occupied units, about 75 percent. Median value over that period was $305,800. Three of every four units went up between 1960 and 1999, so expect a resale market of ramblers and splits.
Schools
Anoka-Hennepin 11 covers the whole city, one district end to end, which is not true of every north-metro city. It was the state's largest district at 36,430 students in 2024-25. Ten of its schools sit inside the limits: Adams, Eisenhower, Hamilton, Hoover, Mississippi, Morris Bye and Sand Creek elementaries; Coon Rapids and Northdale middle schools; and Coon Rapids High School. Northwest Passage and Paladin Career & Technical are 9-12 charters here.
Getting around
Highway 610 crosses the city, linking I-94 in Maple Grove to its east end at US 10 in Blaine. US 10 and Highway 47 run together from Foley Boulevard here up through Anoka. Hanson Boulevard carries north-south traffic. Northstar commuter rail is gone: the last trains ran January 4, 2026, and Metro Transit's Route 888 took over the next day, running Ramsey to Anoka to Coon Rapids to downtown Minneapolis.
Parks & things to do
Coon Rapids Dam Regional Park at 9750 Egret Boulevard NW holds the visitor center, boat launch, fishing pier and Cenaiko Lake, stocked for trout; Three Rivers Park District operates the dam structure itself. Bunker Hills Regional Park straddles the Andover line, with Bunker Hills Golf Course at 12800 Bunker Prairie Road NW. The city runs the Coon Rapids Ice Center and Sand Creek Athletic Complex.
Neighborhoods in Coon Rapids
- Riverdale
- Crooked Lake
- Sand Creek
- Coon Creek
- Northdale
- Shenandoah
- Pheasant Ridge
- Prairie Oaks
- Port Riverwalk
- Port Evergreen
- Port Campus Square
- Port Wellness
Buying or selling in Coon Rapids.
Is Coon Rapids the largest city in Anoka County?
No. Blaine is, and it is not close. The 2020 census counted 70,222 in Blaine against 63,599 in Coon Rapids, and Blaine has grown faster since: the Census Bureau's 2025 estimates put Blaine at 76,603 and Coon Rapids at 64,193. Statewide, Coon Rapids was Minnesota's sixteenth-largest city at the 2020 count, behind Burnsville and Eden Prairie, and ranks fifteenth on the 2025 estimate. The 2020-2024 ACS five-year average is 63,468. The 'largest in Anoka County' line still turns up in older marketing copy; it is wrong.
Can I still take the train from Coon Rapids to downtown Minneapolis?
No. Northstar commuter rail ran its last trains on January 4, 2026, and bus service replaced it on January 5. Metro Transit's Route 888 runs between Ramsey, Anoka, Coon Rapids and downtown Minneapolis, every 30 minutes arriving downtown from 6:30 to 8:30 a.m. and leaving downtown from 3 to 5 p.m., hourly the rest of the day, and three trips each direction on weekends. Route 827 covers Fridley and Route 882 covers Big Lake and Elk River. Metro Transit describes the swap as a tenfold increase in trips, from about 40 train trips a week to nearly 400 bus trips. Several north-metro city and county websites still describe the train as operating.
Which school district serves Coon Rapids?
Anoka-Hennepin 11, and it covers the whole city, so you do not have to check the parcel here the way you do in a split city like Brooklyn Park. It was the state's largest district at 36,430 students in 2024-25. Ten of its schools sit inside the city: Adams, Eisenhower, Hamilton, Hoover, Mississippi, Morris Bye and Sand Creek elementaries; Coon Rapids and Northdale middle schools; and Coon Rapids High School, home of the district's Center for Biomedical Sciences and Engineering magnet program. Two charter high schools are also in the city: Northwest Passage on Robinson Drive NW and Paladin Career & Technical on Goldenrod Street NW. One trap: Crooked Lake Elementary shares its name with a Coon Rapids neighborhood but sits in Andover.
Is there much new construction in Coon Rapids?
Relatively little. Only 3,140 of 25,346 housing units date to 2000 or later in the 2020-2024 ACS, and just 250 to 2020 or later, against 18,828 built between 1960 and 1999. What does get added concentrates on Coon Rapids Boulevard, where the city has drawn four master-planned nodes it calls Ports: Evergreen, Riverwalk, Campus Square and Wellness. Port Riverwalk delivered 136 detached townhomes between Egret Boulevard and Zilla Street in 2021. Elsewhere on the boulevard, Hornig Companies opened a 43-unit apartment building at Blackfoot Street in 2022, and Dominium's 166-unit senior building went up near Crooked Lake Boulevard in 2015. The city has a 2050 comprehensive plan update underway.
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