Scanlon, Minnesota.
Typical home $287,361 (+2.0% in a year). Duluth, MN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$814 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,737 +2%
- $281,624$287,361 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,759 +22%
- $234,601$287,361 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.
- Scanlon$1,508
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Scanlon, MN rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Scanlon, Carlton County, Minnesota
Scanlon is a city of 987 people in Carlton County. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Carlton County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Scanlon is a very small city in Carlton County, Minnesota, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners, a good deal more than is typical across the country. Typical home values sit well above what many small northern towns see, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than in many places. Winters are long, cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm, comfortable summer days.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in the building trades and in shops. Commutes are fairly short, and very few people work from home. Across Carlton County, the largest workplaces include MSOP Moose Lake, USG and Cloquet Public School District, though unemployment in the county has risen over the past year and there are slightly fewer jobs than before.
Things to do. The Carlton County History and Heritage Center, a museum, is in or beside town, and the Midway River also runs in or beside town. Jay Cooke State Park, a protected area along the Saint Louis River country, is a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Lake Superior Zoo is a longer drive away.
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- 489households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Carlton County had 13,111 jobs in 2025, 1.2% 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 78° and lows near 54°. About 71 inches of snow and 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cloquet weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Carlton County
- MSOP Moose LakeMental health facilities, residential415
- USGCeiling tile405
- Carlton CountyExecutive and legislative office combinations370
- Cloquet Public School DistrictSchool district370FTE
- Community Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital343FTE
- Upper Lakes Foods CLPrivate warehousing and storage, refrigerated272
- Inter-Faith Care CenterNursing homes140
- Essentia Health Moose LakeCritical access hospital134FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 45 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,577 people in all across the county; Scanlon has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Scanlon’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Carlton County and the Duluth, MN-WI metro.
Scanlon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Scanlon$287,361
- 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 Scanlon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Scanlon — 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.