Brimson, Minnesota.
Typical home $186,699 (+8.3% in a year). Duluth, MN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$545 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,305 +8%
- $172,395$186,699 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,592 +24%
- $150,107$186,699 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Brimson$980
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Brimson, MN rose 8.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brimson, St. Louis County, Minnesota
The Census does not count Brimson on its own, so the figures here are St. Louis County's. Half the county's households earn more than $70,069 a year and half less; 13% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 71% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in St. Louis County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in St. Louis County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Brimson is a small town in St. Louis County, Minnesota, where, across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are long and cold, with heavy snow, and summers are warm. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Across St. Louis County, many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and professional and business services are also common. Unemployment has risen over the past year, and the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did a year earlier. Few people work from home, and commutes are fairly short.
Things to do. A longer drive brings you to North River and the Gooseberry River, both rivers, and to Cloquet Valley State Forest, a protected area of woods. These make good places for time on the water and walks among the trees.
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- 87,115households
- 41.2median age
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in St. Louis County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. St. Louis County had 95,078 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 18° and lows near -4°; warmest in July, with highs near 76° and lows near 50°. About 70 inches of snow and 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brimson 2S weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in St. Louis County
- St. Lukes Hospital of DuluthGeneral hospital2,059FTE
- St. Marys Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,859FTE
- Smdc Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,607FTE
- University of Minnesota-DuluthUniversity or college1,539
- Duluth Public School DistrictSchool district1,287FTE
- St. Louis CountyGeneral government815
- Essentia HealthMedical office management services746
- Range Regional Health ServicesGeneral hospital692FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 343 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 41,741 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across St. Louis County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on St. Louis County and the Duluth, MN-WI metro.
Brimson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brimson$186,699
- Minnesota$348,778
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Brimson8
Zip codes with a Brimson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brimson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.