Brook Park, Minnesota.
Typical home $239,668 (+4.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$769 (+157%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,930 +4%
- $229,739$239,668 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,510 +40%
- $171,159$239,668 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.
- Brook Park$1,258
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Brook Park, MN rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brook Park, Pine County, Minnesota
Brook Park is a city of 132 people in Pine County. Unemployment in Pine County was 6.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pine County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brook Park is a very small city, with far fewer people than most American towns. Incomes across Pine County sit a little above the middle of the country's range, and a typical home here costs less than many homeowners elsewhere would expect. Few adults have a four-year degree, and the daily drive to work is a long one.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, the building trades and manufacturing. Across Pine County, the largest workplaces include Walmart, the Pine City Public School District and the Hinckley-Finlayson School District. Unemployment across the county is higher than it was a year ago, though the county has added a few more jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Pokegama Lake and Pokegama Creek are both a short drive away, and Mission Creek is close by as well. Banning State Park is a longer drive, a protected area along the Kettle River. Winters are cold, with a good deal of snow, and summers are warm.
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- 5%of adults have a degree
- 39 mintypical commute
What people in Pine County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pine County had 7,906 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 19° and lows near -1°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 55°. About 45 inches of snow and 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hinckley weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pine County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters327
- Pine City Public School DistrictSchool district175FTE
- Hinckley-finlayson School DistrictSchool district159FTE
- Bureau of Prisons/federal Prison SystemFederal government · Department of Justice128
- Pine Technical & Community CollegeTwo-year college123
- PhaseSocial service centers, multipurpose113
- Essentia Health SandstoneHospitals, general medical and surgical111
- East Central School DistrictSchool district101FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,886 people in all across the county; Brook Park has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brook Park’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Pine County.
Brook Park home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brook Park$239,668
- 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.
Zip codes with a Brook Park address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brook Park — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.