Shevlin, Minnesota.
Typical home $251,274 (+8.0% in a year). Bemidji, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$738 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,715 +8%
- $232,559$251,274 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $59,999 +31%
- $191,275$251,274 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.
- Shevlin$1,319
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Shevlin, MN rose 8.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Shevlin, Clearwater County, Minnesota
Shevlin is a city of 137 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Shevlin is a very small city in northern Minnesota, home to only a handful of households compared with most American towns. Winters here are long and cold, with January the coldest month, highs staying well below freezing and lows dropping further still. Summers are pleasantly warm, with July the warmest month, and a good deal of snow falls over the year alongside a moderate amount of rain and melted snow. Homes are valued at a level many buyers elsewhere would find modest.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, shops and manufacturing. Across Clearwater County, some of the largest workplaces are TEAM Industries Bagley, which makes transmissions and parts, the RED Lake Public School District and RED Lake Indian Hospital. Unemployment across the county is higher than it was a year ago, though the county has added a few more jobs than the year before. Household incomes in the county sit near the middle of the range, and the typical commute is a little shorter than the length of a lunch hour.
Things to do. The closest outdoor spots are Lake Lomond and Buzzle Lake, both small lakes a short drive away, and Walker Brook, a river also a short drive off. For a longer day out, Itasca State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Lake Itasca, nearby in the same direction, is a well-known lake and the headwaters of the Mississippi. Lake Bemidji is another larger lake a longer drive away, and with snowy winters, the area suits those who enjoy the outdoors in every season.
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- 9%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
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 17° and lows near -4°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 55°. About 52 inches of snow and 28 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Itasca Univ Of Minn weather station, 21 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clearwater County
- TEAM Industries BagleyTransmissions and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing442
- Red Lake Public School DistrictSchool district319FTE
- Red Lake Indian HospitalGeneral hospital229FTE
- CharpsPipeline, gas and oil, construction189
- Bagley Public School DistrictSchool district117FTE
- ISD #162 - ElementaryK-12 education109
- NorMinn IndustrialMillwrights96
- Potvin Holdings84
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,373 people in all across the county; Shevlin 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Shevlin’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 Clearwater County and the Bemidji, MN metro.
Shevlin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Shevlin$251,274
- 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 Shevlin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Shevlin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.