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Hill City city, Minnesota: commercial real estate data.
Hill City city is a Census city of 503 people across 1.11 square miles of land, in Aitkin County. Median household income is $37,396, 67.8 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $965,000.
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Hill City
What Hill City is
- Census place typecity
- Land area1.11 sq mi
- Water area0.24 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land452 plus or minus 107
- County holding the largest share of its areaAitkin County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hill City
How many people live in Hill City
- Population503 plus or minus 119
- Median age52.1 plus or minus 15.0
- Population under 18102 plus or minus 39
- Share under 1820.3 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Population 65 and over179 plus or minus 50
- Share 65 and over35.6 percent
- Households245 plus or minus 56
- Family households155 plus or minus 46
- Share of households that are families63.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hill City
Income and work in Hill City
- Median household income$37,396 plus or minus $7,918
- Per capita income$21,174
- Civilian labor force197 plus or minus 77
- Employed162 plus or minus 54
- Unemployed35 plus or minus 37
- Unemployment rate17.8 percent plus or minus 17.5
- Adults 25 and over377 plus or minus 84
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher95.2 percent plus or minus 28.4
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher15.9 percent plus or minus 7.3
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree3.4 percent plus or minus 4.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hill City
Housing in Hill City
- Housing units363
- Occupied units245 plus or minus 56
- Vacant units118 plus or minus 40
- Vacancy rate32.5 percent plus or minus 9.2
- Owner occupied166 plus or minus 54
- Renter occupied79 plus or minus 24
- Ownership rate67.8 percent plus or minus 15.7
- Median owner-occupied home value$162,000 plus or minus $43,940
- Median gross rent, monthly$522 plus or minus $193
- Annual rent as a share of median income16.8 percent plus or minus 7.1
- Single family units168 plus or minus 52
- Share single family46.3 percent plus or minus 11.5
- Units in buildings of two or more178 plus or minus 52
- Share in buildings of two or more49.0 percent plus or minus 11.2
- Mobile homes17 plus or minus 17
- Median year structure built1975
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hill City
How Hill City gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute157 plus or minus 53
- Commuting under 15 minutes22 plus or minus 15
- Share commuting under 15 minutes14.0 percent plus or minus 8.0
- Commuting 30 minutes or more28 plus or minus 22
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more17.8 percent plus or minus 12.5
- Drove alone90.7 percent
- Carpooled0.0 percent
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked1.9 percent plus or minus 1.7
- Worked from home3.1 percent plus or minus 4.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hill City
SBA loans in Hill City (7(a))
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$965,000
- Average approval$965,000
- Median approval$965,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$965,000
- Largest approval$965,000
- Jobs supported21
- Jobs per approval21.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term261 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more100.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Aitkin County, not Hill City
Aitkin County context, not Hill City figures
These are Aitkin County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Hill City measurements.
- Establishments in Aitkin County415
- Employment at those establishments, Aitkin County3,632
- Covered employment, Aitkin County4,328
- Average annual pay, Aitkin County$47,689
- Average weekly wage, Aitkin County$917
- Housing units permitted, Aitkin County135
- Of those, single family, Aitkin County135
- County product, 2024, Aitkin County$673,651,000
- County product change over the prior year, Aitkin County8.5 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Aitkin County$85,718
Every figure in this section is published for Aitkin County as a whole and is not a measurement of Hill City. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Hill City questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Hill City, Minnesota?
503, in 245 households. Hill City city covers 1.11 square miles of land, which is 452 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Hill City in?
Aitkin County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Hill City?
$37,396. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $162,000. Median gross rent is $522 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Hill City businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $965,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $965,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Hill City, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Hill City borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Hill City. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Are the county figures on this page Hill City figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Aitkin County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Hill City.
Is zoning published for Hill City?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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