Ironton, Minnesota.
Typical home $281,972 (+1.2% in a year). Brainerd, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$817 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,307 +1%
- $278,665$281,972 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,965 +18%
- $238,008$281,972 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.
- Ironton$1,480
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Ironton, MN rose 1.2% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Ironton, Crow Wing County, Minnesota
Ironton is a city of 576 people in Crow Wing County. Half its households earn more than $62,813 a year and half less, against $72,589 across Crow Wing County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Crow Wing County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Crow Wing 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ironton is a very small city in Crow Wing County, Minnesota, with a population that fits comfortably into a few quiet streets. Household incomes run below the county's, and a noticeable share of residents live below the poverty line. Homes here are typically valued well under what a four-year degree and a long career might suggest elsewhere, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and nights that fall well below freezing, while July brings pleasantly warm days and the year's rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount.
Work. Residents mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Crow Wing County, some of the largest workplaces are St. Joseph's Medical Center, Brainerd Public School District and Cuyuna Regional Medical Center. Unemployment across the county has risen a little over the past year, and the number of jobs there has barely changed, while only a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. Cuyuna Country State Recreation Area and the Portsmouth Mine Pit Lake are in or beside town, so protected land and open water are close at hand. A short drive brings you to Lake Edward, the Nokasippi River and Paul Bunyan Land, an amusement park. For a longer outing, Mille Lacs Lake, a large lake, is a longer drive away.
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- 265households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 7%work from home
What people in Crow Wing County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Crow Wing County had 31,145 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 21° and lows near 0°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 58°. About 25 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brainerd Crow Wing County Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Crow Wing County
- St. Josephs Medical CenterGeneral hospital964FTE
- Brainerd Public School DistrictSchool district915FTE
- Cuyuna Regional Medical CenterCritical access hospital834FTE
- Crow Wing CountyExecutive offices, federal, state, and local579
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters467
- MNDOT District 3Transportation departments, nonoperating454
- Essentiah HealthFamily physicians' offices326
- Central Lakes College-BrainerdTwo-year college278
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 90 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,399 people in all across the county; Ironton has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- 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 Ironton’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 Crow Wing County and the Brainerd, MN metro.
Ironton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ironton$281,972
- 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 Ironton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ironton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.