Assisted living in Minnesota

2,146 licensed communities · 462 have a serious flag on record. Listed alphabetically: Minnesota publishes the findings, not a rating, so we do not rank them and we do not invent a score.

What Minnesota licenses — and why this total isn’t comparable to another state’s

There is no national definition of “assisted living.” Each state decides what it licenses and what to call it, so a state total counts whatever that state chose to license — state counts on this site are not comparable to each other, and a bigger number does not mean more assisted living. Here that total is:

2,146 Assisted living

Memory care isn’t marked here — because the state doesn’t publish it.

Minnesota’s licensing file carries no memory-care or dementia-unit designation, so we cannot tell you which of these communities has one. There certainly are memory-care communities in this state — we just have no authoritative list of them, and we won’t guess from a community’s name. Ask any community directly whether it runs a secured dementia unit, and ask your Long-Term Care Ombudsman ↗ which local communities take dementia residents.

Typical monthly cost in Minnesota

$6,573/mo

Assisted living

$7,773/mo

Memory care†our estimate — not surveyed

Median private-pay cost, CareScout (Genworth) 2025 Cost of Care Survey — a regional midpoint, not any single community’s rate. Private rooms and higher care levels cost more; ask for a current quote. Project your own in the cost-of-care planner.

† Memory care is our estimate, not survey data: CareScout does not survey memory care, so we take the assisted-living median for the state and add $1,200/month — the typical secured-dementia-unit premium. It is a planning figure with no state-level detail behind it, and real memory-care pricing varies far more than that. Treat it as a starting point and ask the community for its own memory-care rate.

Estimated cost range · regional

In Minnesota, assisted living typically runs about $5,250–$7,900/month.

This is a regional estimate modeled from published survey data (the CareScout/Genworth state median, ±20%) — not this community’s actual price, which it sets privately. Ask the community for its current all-in monthly rate and what each care level adds.

Paying with Medicaid

Minnesota Medicaid can help pay for assisted living — through a waiver, not through regular Medicaid.

The Minnesota waiver that can pay for it:

Elderly Waiver (EW) — covers in-home / adult foster care / assisted living

In Minnesota: apply or check eligibility ↗ or call 1-800-657-3739.

A waiver pays for care, not for rent. Even where the state covers assisted-living services, room and board is still the resident’s to pay. Full eligibility limits — income, assets, the look-back — are on our Minnesota Medicaid page.

10 communities below are listed under the name on the licence, not the name on the building.

They are marked licence name. A state lists a community under the legal entity that holds its licence — typically a single-purpose company set up for one property — and those communities almost certainly operate under a different public name. The state does not publish that name, so we do not have it and will not guess: attaching the wrong community’s inspection record to a familiar brand would be worse than an odd name. If you are looking for a community by its brand and cannot find it here, search by street address instead.