There are many small towns in Minnesota perfect for retirement living. Many are near the metro areas and livable small towns throughout MN.

Best Small Towns in Minnesota For Retirement Living:

Popular: Minnesota 55 Plus Communities, Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs) are life care communities. that have large campuses that include separate housing sections for those who live very independently, assisted living facilities that offer more support and nursing homes for those needing skilled nursing care.

Minnesota small towns and communities include:

Afton Almelund Bayport Bethel Braham Brook Park Cambridge Cannon Falls Castle Rock Cedar Center City Chisago City Circle Pines Cottage Grove Dalbo Dennison MN Dundas Elko Faribault Farmington Forest Lake Frontenac Goodhue Grandy Grasston Hampton Harris Hastings Henriette Hinckley Hugo Isanti Lake City Lake Elmo Lakeland Lakeville Lindstrom Lonsdale Marine On Saint Croix Medford Mora Morristown Nerstrand New Market Newport North Branch Northfield Owatonna Pine City Randolph Red Wing Rock Creek Rosemount Rush City Saint Francis Saint Paul Park Sandstone Scandia Shafer South Saint Paul Inver Grove Heights Stacy Stanchfield Stillwater Taylors Falls Vermillion Warsaw Webster Welch Willernie Wyoming Saint Paul Mendota MN Albertville Annandale Anoka Andover Hopkins Burnsville Arlington Becker Big Lake Bird Island Osseo Brownton Buffalo Buffalo Lake Carver Champlin Chanhassen Chaska Clear Lake Clearwater Cokato Cologne Crystal Bay Darwin Dassel Dayton Delano Eden Valley Elk River Excelsior Fairfax Franklin Gaylord Gibbon Glencoe Green Isle Hamburg Hamel Hanover Hector Eden Prairie Minnetonka Maple Plain Howard Lake Hutchinson Jordan Kimball Lester Prairie Litchfield Long Lake Loretto Maple Lake Mayer Minnetonka Beach Monticello Montrose Mound New Auburn New Germany Norwood Young America Plato Princeton Prior Lake Rockford Rogers Saint Bonifacius Saint Michael Santiago Savage Shakopee Silver Creek Silver Lake South Haven Norwood Spring Park Stewart Victoria Waconia Watertown Watkins Waverly Wayzata Navarre Young America Winsted Winthrop Zimmerman Minneapolis Beaver Bay Brimson Finland Grand Marais Grand Portage Hovland Isabella Knife River Lutsen Schroeder Silver Bay MN Tofte Two Harbors Adolph Alborn Angora Askov Aurora Babbitt Barnum Biwabik Bovey Britt Brookston Bruno Buhl Calumet Canyon Carlton Chisholm Cloquet Cohasset Coleraine Cook Cotton Crane Lake Cromwell Grand Rapids Ely Embarrass Esko Eveleth Finlayson Floodwood Forbes Gilbert Goodland Hibbing Hill City Holyoke Hoyt Lakes Iron Jacobson Keewatin Kerrick Kettle River Kinney Mcgregor Makinen Marble Meadowlands Melrude Moose Lake Mountain Iron Nashwauk Orr Nett Lake Pengilly Virginia Saginaw Sawyer Side Lake Soudan Sturgeon Lake Swan River Swatara Taconite Tamarack Tower Twig Warba Willow River Winton Wrenshall Wright Duluth Rochester Dakota Countyms Altura Austin Blooming Prairie Brownsdale Brownsville Byron Caledonia Canton Chatfield Claremont Dakota Dexter Dodge Center Dover Eitzen Elgin Elkton Eyota Fountain Grand Meadow Harmony Hayfield Hokah Homer Houston Kasson Kellogg MN Kenyon La Crescent Lanesboro Lansing Le Roy Lewiston Lyle Mabel Mantorville Mazeppa Millville Minnesota City Oronoco Ostrander Peterson Pine Island Plainview Preston Racine Reads Landing Rollingstone Rose Creek Rushford Saint Charles Sargeant Spring Grove Spring Valley Stewartville Taopi Utica Wabasha Waltham Wanamingo West Concord Winona Stockton Wykoff Zumbro Falls Zumbrota Mankato Albert Lea Alden Amboy Belle Plaine Blue Earth Bricelyn Clarks Grove Cleveland Comfrey Conger Courtland Darfur Delavan Eagle Lake Easton Ellendale Elmore Elysian Emmons Essig Fairmont Freeborn Frost Garden City Geneva Glenville Good Thunder Granada Hanska Hartland Hayward Henderson Hollandale Hope Huntley Janesville Kasota Kiester Kilkenny Lafayette Lake Crystal La Salle Le Center Le Sueur Lewisville Madelia Madison Lake Mapleton Minnesota Lake Montgomery New Prague New Richland New Ulm Nicollet Northrop Pemberton Saint Clair Saint James Saint Peter Sanborn MN Searles Sleepy Eye Springfield Truman Twin Lakes Vernon Center Waldorf Waseca Waterville Wells Winnebago Windom Adrian Alpha Arco Avoca Balaton Beaver Creek Bigelow Bingham Lake Brewster Butterfield Ceylon Chandler Currie Dovray Dunnell Edgerton Ellsworth Fulda Garvin Hardwick Hendricks Heron Lake Hills Holland Ihlen Iona Ivanhoe Jackson Jasper Jeffers Kanaranzi Kenneth Lake Benton Lakefield Lake Wilson Lamberton Leota Lismore Luverne Lynd Magnolia Mountain Lake Odin Okabena Ormsby Pipestone Reading Revere Round Lake Rushmore Russell Ruthton Sherburn Slayton Steen Storden Tracy Trimont Trosky Tyler Walnut Grove Welcome Westbrook Wilmont Woodstock Worthington Willmar Alberta Appleton Atwater Barry Beardsley Bellingham Belview Benson Blomkest Boyd Browns Valley Canby Chokio Clara City Clarkfield Clements Clinton Clontarf Correll Cosmos Cottonwood Danube Danvers Dawson Donnelly Dumont Echo Ghent Graceville Granite Falls Grove City Hancock Hanley Falls Herman Holloway Kandiyohi Kerkhoven Lake Lillian Lucan Madison Marietta Marshall Maynard MN Milan Milroy Minneota Montevideo Morgan Morris Morton Murdock New London Norcross Odessa Olivia Ortonville Pennock Porter Prinsburg Raymond Redwood Falls Renville Sacred Heart Seaforth Spicer Sunburg Taunton Vesta Wabasso Wanda Watson Wheaton Wood Lake Saint Cloud Albany Alexandria Ashby Avon Barrett Belgrade Bock Bowlus Brandon Brooten Buckman Burtrum Carlos Cold Spring Collegeville Cyrus Dalton Elrosa Evansville Farwell Flensburg Foley Foreston Freeport Garfield Gilman Glenwood Greenwald Grey Eagle Hillman Hoffman Holdingford Holmes City Isle Kensington Lastrup Little Falls Long Prairie Lowry Mc Grath Melrose Milaca Miltona Nelson New Munich Oak Park Ogilvie Onamia Osakis Parkers Prairie Paynesville Pease Pierz Rice Richmond Rockville Roscoe Royalton Saint Joseph Saint Stephen Saint Martin Sartell Sauk Centre Sauk Rapids Starbuck Swanville Upsala Villard Wahkon Waite Park West Union Brainerd Baxter Ah Gwah Ching Aitkin Akeley Aldrich Backus Benedict Bertha Browerville Clarissa Crosby Crosslake Cushing Deerwood Eagle Bend Emily Fifty Lakes Fort Ripley Garrison Hackensack Hewitt Ironton Jenkins Lake George Lake Hubert Laporte Menahga Merrifield Motley Nevis Nisswa Palisade Park Rapids Pequot Lakes Pillager Pine River Randall Sebeka Nimrod Staples Verndale Wadena Walker Detroit Lakes Ada Audubon MN Barnesville Battle Lake Bejou Beltrami Bluffton Borup Breckenridge Callaway Campbell Climax Clitherall Comstock Deer Creek Dent Dilworth Elbow Lake Elizabeth Erhard Erskine Felton Fergus Falls Fertile Flom Fosston Foxhome Frazee Gary Georgetown Glyndon Halstad Hawley Hendrum Henning Hitterdal Kent Lake Park Mcintosh Mahnomen Moorhead Nashua Naytahwaush New York Mills Nielsville Ogema Osage Ottertail Pelican Rapids Perham Perley Ponsford Richville Richwood Rochert Rothsay Sabin Shelly Tintah Twin Valley Ulen Underwood Vergas Vining Waubun Wendell White Earth Winger Wolf Lake Wolverton Bemidji Bagley Baudette Bena Big Falls Bigfork Birchdale Blackduck Bowstring Cass Lake Clearbrook Deer River Talmoon Effie Federal Dam Gonvick Gully Hines International Falls Kelliher Lengby Leonard Littlefork Loman Longville Marcell Margie Max Mizpah Northome Outing Pennington Ponemah Puposky Ranier Kabetogama Redby Redlake Remer Roosevelt Shevlin Solway South International Falls Spring Lake Squaw Lake Swift Tenstrike Trail Waskish Williams Wilton Wirt Thief River Falls Alvarado Angle Inlet Argyle Badger Brooks Crookston Donaldson East Grand Forks Euclid Fisher Gatzke Goodridge MN Greenbush Grygla Hallock Halma Humboldt Karlstad Kennedy Lake Bronson Lancaster Mentor Middle River Newfolden Noyes Oak Island Oklee Oslo Plummer Red Lake Falls Roseau Saint Hilaire Saint Vincent Salol Stephen Strandquist Strathcona Viking Wannaska Warren Warroad Minnesota 55+ communities.