Cohasset is a very small city located in the state of Minnesota. With a population of 2,714 people and two associated neighborhoods, Cohasset is the 267th largest community in Minnesota.

A relatively large number of people in Cohasset telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 13.75% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Because of many things, Cohasset is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Cohasset really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Cohasset perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Cohasset has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Cohasset has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cohasset than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cohasset may be for you.

As is often the case in a small city, Cohasset doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

In terms of college education, Cohasset is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 32.97% of adults in Cohasset have a college degree.

The per capita income in Cohasset in 2022 was $51,118, which is wealthy relative to Minnesota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $204,472 for a family of four. However, Cohasset contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Cohasset is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Cohasset home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cohasset residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Cohasset include German, Norwegian, Irish, English, and Finnish.

The most common language spoken in Cohasset is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.