Buhl, Minnesota.
Typical home $125,834 (+4.9% in a year). Duluth, MN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$397 (+151%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,846 +5%
- $119,988$125,834 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,713 +44%
- $87,121$125,834 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.
- Buhl$660
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Buhl, MN rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Buhl, St. Louis County, Minnesota
Buhl is a city of 952 people in St. Louis County. Half its households earn more than $58,750 a year and half less, against $70,069 across St. Louis County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Buhl is a small city on Minnesota's Iron Range, with a population that makes it easy to know your neighbors. Household incomes run below the county's, and homes are modest in price. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and snow and rain adding up to a fairly moderate amount over the year, while July is pleasantly warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and professional and business services. Across St. Louis County, some of the largest workplaces are St. Luke's Hospital of Duluth, St. Mary's Medical Center and the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home. Unemployment across the county is higher than it was a year ago, and the county has a few fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. The Minnesota Discovery Center, a museum, is a short drive away, as is the Greyhound Bus Museum. Longyear Lake is also a short drive away for time on the water. For a day out in the woods, McCarthy Beach State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 447households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 1%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 17° and lows near -4°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 50°. About 25 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hibbing Chisholm Hibbing Airport weather station, 8 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 across the county; Buhl has one of its own. 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Buhl’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 St. Louis County and the Duluth, MN-WI metro.
Buhl home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Buhl$125,834
- 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 Buhl address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Buhl — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.