Remer, Minnesota.
Typical home $161,818 (+0.9% in a year). Brainerd, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$502 (+145%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,458 +1%
- $160,360$161,818 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $39,542 +32%
- $122,277$161,818 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.
- Remer$849
- 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 Remer, MN rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Remer, Cass County, Minnesota
Remer is a city of 391 people in Cass County. Half its households earn more than $49,500 a year and half less, against $68,874 across Cass County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Cass County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cass 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Remer is a very small city in Cass County, Minnesota, where households earn less than across the county as a whole and a larger share of people live below the poverty line than most would expect. Homes here are modest in price. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month and a good deal of snow, while July brings warm days. Precipitation through the year is moderate.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants and hotels, or in the building trades. Northland Community Schools, Midstate Plastics and Remer Savanna Pallets are among the largest workplaces in town. Commutes are short, some people work from home, and unemployment across Cass County has risen over the past year while the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Birch Lake lies in or beside town, and Loon Lake is a short drive away for time on the water. Land O'Lakes State Forest, also a short drive away, offers woods to walk through. A longer drive reaches Leech Lake, one of the area's best-known lakes, and the wide forests of Chippewa National Forest.
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- 164households
- 16%below the poverty line
- 15 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Cass County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cass County had 10,595 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 18° and lows near -2°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 58°. About 48 inches of snow and 27 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Leech Lake weather station, 20 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Remer
- Cass CountyK-12 education99
- Northland Community SchoolsSchool district80FTE
- Midstate PlasticsPaint sticks, plastics, manufacturing30
- Remer Savanna PalletsPallet manufacturer, sawmill27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 156 people in all. School districts come 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 wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Remer’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Cass County and the Brainerd, MN metro.
Remer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Remer$161,818
- 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.
- Remer4
Zip codes with a Remer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Remer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.