Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Credit River, MN

Credit River is a city in eastern Scott County, Minnesota, just south of the Twin Cities suburbs of Prior Lake, Savage and Lakeville, with easy access to Interstate 35.

Credit River Township was organized in 1858, one of the original townships of Scott County, and it took its name from the Credit River, a stream that flows northward through the community toward the Minnesota River.

After more than 160 years as a township, Credit River incorporated as a city on May 11, 2021, following an administrative law judge's ruling in its favor - it was the first township-to-city incorporation in Minnesota since 2015.

The 2020 census counted 5,493 people in Credit River, up from just 2,851 residents in 1990, as the once-rural township steadily filled with large-lot suburban homes.

Census QuickFacts counts about 1,941 households in Credit River, averaging 2.85 people per household - among the larger household sizes in the Twin Cities metro.

Despite its growth, Credit River remains mostly rural in character: the 2020 census classified about 4,084 of its 5,493 residents as rural rather than urban.

Credit River gave its name to the famous 'Credit River Case' (First National Bank of Montgomery v. Daly), tried in the township's justice court in December 1968, in which a local jury sided with homeowner Jerome Daly, who argued the bank had merely created credit on its books when it made his mortgage loan; the ruling was quickly nullified on appeal and set no legal precedent, but it is still cited by critics of the banking system.