Minot Air Force Base is a somewhat small town located in the state of North Dakota. With a population of 5,017 people and two associated neighborhoods, Minot Air Force Base is the 15th largest community in North Dakota.

Minot Air Force Base is a military town: the armed forces employs 18.19% of the workforce, making the military a major focus of life in the city. In the civilian sector, Healthcare and Public Service are important in the local economy and are the town’s largest civilian employers, employing 22.36% and 17.71% of the civilian workforce respectively.

In addition, Minot Air Force Base is a college town. There are a lot of students in Minot Air Force Base attending college, and as a result Minot Air Force Base provides a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared to the needs and activities of students.

The overall crime rate in Minot Air Force Base is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

One of the benefits of Minot Air Force Base is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 12.17 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Being a small town, Minot Air Force Base does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

The percentage of people in Minot Air Force Base who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 26.16% of adults in Minot Air Force Base have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Minot Air Force Base in 2022 was $24,258, which is low income relative to North Dakota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $97,032 for a family of four. However, Minot Air Force Base contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Minot Air Force Base is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Minot Air Force Base home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Minot Air Force Base residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Minot Air Force Base also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.07% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Minot Air Force Base include German, Irish, English, Italian, and French.

The most common language spoken in Minot Air Force Base is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.