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Toilet Repair in Minnesota
Across the 59 Minnesota towns we route calls in, 69% of households own their home and 66% of the housing was built before 1990. The first figure decides who pays for the repair; the second decides what is probably installed.
Short version
Across the 59 Minnesota towns covered here, 69% of households own their home and 66% of the housing was built before 1990. The first figure decides who pays for a toilet repair; the second is about the house rather than the fixture in it.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, tables B25003 and B25034.
The two figures, for Minnesota as a whole
| Minnesota | Share | Homes |
|---|---|---|
| Owner-occupied | 69% | 861,244 |
| Rented | 31% | 387,596 |
Weighted across 1,248,840 occupied homes. Separately, 66% of the state’s 1,305,708 housing units — a wider universe, because it includes vacant ones — were built before 1990, which is before the Energy Policy Act of 1992 set a 1.6 gallon flush maximum.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, tables B25003 (tenure) and B25034 (year structure built), 2023 release. Flush volumes: US EPA WaterSense, tank-type toilet supporting statement.
Minnesota does not divide evenly
A state average hides the thing that matters. Of the 59 towns we route in here, 6 are mostly pre-1990 housing and 23 are mostly post-1990 housing; on tenure, 41 are strongly owner-occupied and 2 are renter-heavy.
The two are close to independent of each other, so an old town is not reliably an owning town or a renting one. That is why every town page below carries its own pair of figures rather than inheriting these.
The largest towns we route in Minnesota
| Town | Owner-occupied | Built before 1990 | Occupied homes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minneapolis | 61% | 76% | 473,285 |
| Saint Paul | 65% | 72% | 326,812 |
| Burnsville | 67% | 71% | 25,853 |
| Eden Prairie | 76% | 58% | 25,439 |
| Hopkins | 52% | 73% | 23,236 |
| Lakeville | 88% | 28% | 21,891 |
| Anoka | 76% | 53% | 19,715 |
| Shakopee | 76% | 33% | 17,610 |
What goes wrong, wherever you are in Minnesota
The fault list does not vary by state. A running tank is the flapper or the fill valve, and EPA publishes a ten-minute test that tells them apart. Water at the base is four different faults, one of which is condensation and not a leak at all. A fixture that rocks is the one that causes the seal failure you will meet later.
What varies by town is who fixes it. In a rented home the toilet is normally the landlord’s repair, and in the towns above that is a large share of households.
Checking a plumber in Minnesota
Checking a credential in Minnesota
Minnesota licenses are issued by the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins. The Minnesota lookup also shows bond status and any enforcement action.
Towns we route in Minnesota
- Andover 94% owner-occupied · 42% pre-1990
- Anoka 76% owner-occupied · 53% pre-1990
- Belle Plaine 86% owner-occupied · 41% pre-1990
- Bethel 89% owner-occupied · 55% pre-1990
- Burnsville 67% owner-occupied · 71% pre-1990
- Carver 91% owner-occupied · 30% pre-1990
- Cedar 95% owner-occupied · 55% pre-1990
- Champlin 89% owner-occupied · 56% pre-1990
- Chanhassen 83% owner-occupied · 38% pre-1990
- Chaska 71% owner-occupied · 43% pre-1990
- Circle Pines 84% owner-occupied · 58% pre-1990
- Cologne 90% owner-occupied · 45% pre-1990
- Cottage Grove 88% owner-occupied · 52% pre-1990
- Dayton 94% owner-occupied · 41% pre-1990
- Eden Prairie 76% owner-occupied · 58% pre-1990
- Elko New Market 96% owner-occupied · 30% pre-1990
- Excelsior 87% owner-occupied · 63% pre-1990
- Farmington 89% owner-occupied · 32% pre-1990
- Forest Lake 74% owner-occupied · 52% pre-1990
- Hamburg 83% owner-occupied · 83% pre-1990
- Hamel 93% owner-occupied · 33% pre-1990
- Hampton 94% owner-occupied · 62% pre-1990
- Hastings 78% owner-occupied · 58% pre-1990
- Hopkins 52% owner-occupied · 73% pre-1990
- Hugo 91% owner-occupied · 25% pre-1990
- Inver Grove Heights 76% owner-occupied · 51% pre-1990
- Jordan 88% owner-occupied · 46% pre-1990
- Lake Elmo 93% owner-occupied · 32% pre-1990
- Lakeville 88% owner-occupied · 28% pre-1990
- Long Lake 87% owner-occupied · 63% pre-1990
- Maple Grove 86% owner-occupied · 31% pre-1990
- Maple Plain 85% owner-occupied · 69% pre-1990
- Mayer 95% owner-occupied · 28% pre-1990
- Minneapolis 61% owner-occupied · 76% pre-1990
- Minnetonka 86% owner-occupied · 82% pre-1990
- Mound 81% owner-occupied · 74% pre-1990
- New Germany 89% owner-occupied · 69% pre-1990
- New Prague 84% owner-occupied · 51% pre-1990
- Newport 68% owner-occupied · 77% pre-1990
- Norwood Young America 73% owner-occupied · 55% pre-1990
- Osseo 79% owner-occupied · 63% pre-1990
- Prior Lake 91% owner-occupied · 42% pre-1990
- Randolph 89% owner-occupied · 59% pre-1990
- Rogers 90% owner-occupied · 18% pre-1990
- Rosemount 87% owner-occupied · 39% pre-1990
- Saint Bonifacius 96% owner-occupied · 30% pre-1990
- Saint Francis 82% owner-occupied · 29% pre-1990
- Saint Paul 65% owner-occupied · 72% pre-1990
- Saint Paul Park 80% owner-occupied · 72% pre-1990
- Savage 84% owner-occupied · 31% pre-1990
- Shakopee 76% owner-occupied · 33% pre-1990
- South Saint Paul 72% owner-occupied · 87% pre-1990
- Spring Park 22% owner-occupied · 76% pre-1990
- Stillwater 78% owner-occupied · 57% pre-1990
- Victoria 92% owner-occupied · 19% pre-1990
- Waconia 83% owner-occupied · 36% pre-1990
- Watertown 81% owner-occupied · 47% pre-1990
- Wayzata 81% owner-occupied · 63% pre-1990
- Young America 85% owner-occupied · 62% pre-1990
If the dye test pointed at the flapper, that is a part, not a fixture.Worth saying on the call, because it changes what somebody arrives with. We connect you to a contractor covering your area and you are never charged. Toilets head this site, but any plumbing job is welcome.
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