Clearbrook, Minnesota.
Typical home $256,757 (+10.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$791 (+142%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $23,611 +10%
- $233,146$256,757 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,391 +36%
- $189,366$256,757 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.
- Clearbrook$1,348
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Clearbrook, MN rose 10.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Clearbrook, Clearwater County, Minnesota
Clearbrook is a city of 464 people in Clearwater County. Unemployment in Clearwater County was 7.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Clearwater County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Clearbrook is a very small city, home to far fewer people than most towns in the state. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and temperatures that stay well below freezing, while summers turn pleasantly warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a modest amount over the year. Incomes across Clearwater County run below the county's neighbours in much of the state, and a four-year degree is less common here than across the country.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and others in the building trades, in shops and in manufacturing. Some of the largest workplaces in town are Charps, which does pipeline, gas and oil construction, NorMinn Industrial, a millwright firm, and Riviana Foods, which mills rice. Unemployment in Clearwater 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. Water is the main draw nearby. Peterson Lake is in or beside town, and Pine Lake, a short drive away, offers more time on the water. Ruffy Brook, also a short drive away, is a river for a quiet walk along its banks.
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- 216households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
What people in Clearwater County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clearwater County had 2,559 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 16° and lows near -5°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 55°. About 27 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fosston East weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clearbrook
- CharpsPipeline, gas and oil, construction189
- NorMinn IndustrialMillwrights96
- Riviana FoodsGrain mills, rice23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 308 people in all. 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Clearbrook’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 Clearwater County.
Clearbrook home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clearbrook$256,757
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Clearbrook address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clearbrook — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.