Bruno, Minnesota.
Typical home $225,494 (+7.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$726 (+159%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,813 +8%
- $209,682$225,494 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,968 +32%
- $170,526$225,494 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.
- Bruno$1,184
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Bruno, MN rose 7.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bruno, Pine County, Minnesota
Bruno is a city of 85 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bruno is a small city in Pine County, Minnesota, with one of the smallest populations among the places in its county. Its homes are generally priced below what is typical across the wider state, and it has a quiet, close-knit feel. Winters are long, cold and snowy, while summers are warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in shops. Building trades and manufacturing also provide work for local people. Jobs in the county have been growing slightly over the past year.
Things to do. Willow River, a river a short drive away, offers a quiet place by the water. D.A.R. State Forest, a protected area a short drive away, is good for walks among the trees. Banning State Park, a protected area a longer drive away, is worth the trip for a longer day outdoors.
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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 0°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 56°. About 64 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bruno 7ENE weather station, 7 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; Bruno 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 wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bruno’s census tracts, 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 Pine County.
Bruno home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bruno$225,494
- 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 Bruno address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bruno — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Bruno
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 55704 | Askov | 1,051 | — | $241,419 |
| 55712 | Bruno | 522 | — | $225,775 |