Brooten, MN population, income and ZIP codes

Brooten city is a very small community in Minnesota, with 582 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #469 of 914 ranked by population — larger than 48% of them. The median age here is 39.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 Brooten city earn a median of $47,500 a year, 39.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and 37% below the $75,469 median for the 361 Minnesota cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 21.1% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Brooten city is valued at $128,900, 57.5% below the national figure and 46% below the $240,400 peer median, while median gross rent runs $988 a month, 29.7% below the national figure, or roughly $11,856 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 25% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 70.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

With 582 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Brooten city against its county rather than against national figures.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.