Bigelow, MN population, income and ZIP codes

Bigelow city is a very small community in Minnesota, with 269 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #627 of 914 ranked by population — larger than 31% of them. The median age here is 36.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Bigelow city earn a median of $75,625 a year, 3.7% below the national figure of $78,538 and within a couple of points of the $75,469 median for the 361 Minnesota cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 12% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Bigelow city is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $1,550 a month, 10.2% above the national figure, or roughly $18,600 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 24.6% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. 65.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

With 269 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Bigelow city against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value for Bigelow city because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.