Fact text

  • Shakopee hosts the Minnesota Renaissance Festival, an outdoor event recreating a fictional 16th-century 'England-like' fantasy kingdom, jousting and turkey legs for everyone.
  • Canterbury Park in Shakopee is both a horse racetrack AND a card club, because apparently one form of gambling just wasn't enough.
  • Burial mounds within Shakopee's Veterans Memorial Park are between 500 and 2,000 years old, making them some seriously ancient neighbors.
  • The Landing is an 88-acre living history village on the Minnesota River that transports visitors back to Minnesota life between 1840 and 1890.
Your
Shakopee
Retirement Outlook — in 90 seconds
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Every figure mentioned is drawn from the same sourced public data shown below — and the video updates as the data does.
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41423
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Total Population
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$
90642
Median Income
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$
280500
Median Home
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9
%
Age 65+
Retirement Suitability
How
Shakopee
ranks for retirees?
22
/ 100

A blended, sourced view of how this city ranks for retirees across tax, affordability, healthcare, and climate.

Tax
0
Affordability
73
Healthcare
9
Climate
7

Results

Shakopee

Suitability Breakdown

Retirement tax planning
01 - Taxes

Retirement Tax Treatment

Tax
0

Minnesota exempts most middle-income retirees from Social Security taxes, with benefits only taxed above certain income thresholds.

State sales tax here runs about

%.

Source · Tax Foundation
0
Retirement tax planning
02 - Income

Annuity Rates Available Here

Affordability
73

Fixed annuity rates reach up to

7

% on 5-year terms, with most landing between

5

% and

5

%.

Source · Cannex
73
Retirement tax planning
03 - Healthcare

Hospital Access & Quality

Healthcare
9

The area has

2

Medicare-certified hospitals, averaging a

3

/5 CMS quality rating.

Source · CMS Hospital Compare
3
Retirement tax planning
04 - Climate

Weather & Comfort

Climate
7

A

Cold / Snowy

climate — summers peak near

81

°F, winters dip to about

10

°F, with roughly

″ of snow a year.

Source · NOAA Climate Normals
Cold / Snowy
Retirement tax planning
05 - Risk

Natural Disaster Risk

Risk
Relatively Low

FEMA's overall natural-disaster risk rating for this county on the National Risk Index.

Source · FEMA National Risk Index
Relatively Low

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