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Comfrey city, Minnesota: commercial real estate data.
Comfrey city is a Census city of 338 people across 0.43 square miles of land, lying across Brown County and Cottonwood County. Median household income is $61,875, 72.7 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Comfrey
What Comfrey is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.43 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land790 plus or minus 168
- County holding the largest share of its areaBrown County, 93.3 percent
- Counties this place lies inBrown County 93.3 percent, Cottonwood County 6.7 percent
Comfrey city crosses a county line. The split above is measured from the Census boundary of the place against the county boundaries, by area, so it says where the ground is and not where the town hall is.
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Comfrey
How many people live in Comfrey
- Population338 plus or minus 72
- Median age42.7
- Population under 1870 plus or minus 30
- Share under 1820.7 percent plus or minus 7.7
- Population 65 and over76 plus or minus 23
- Share 65 and over22.5 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Households165 plus or minus 33
- Family households93 plus or minus 31
- Share of households that are families56.4 percent plus or minus 15.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Comfrey
Income and work in Comfrey
- Median household income$61,875 plus or minus $20,947
- Per capita income$36,377
- Civilian labor force200 plus or minus 49
- Employed196 plus or minus 49
- Unemployed4 plus or minus 6
- Unemployment rate2.0 percent plus or minus 3.0
- Adults 25 and over247
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher95.1 percent plus or minus 23.5
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher17.0 percent plus or minus 7.5
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree4.9 percent plus or minus 5.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Comfrey
Housing in Comfrey
- Housing units193 plus or minus 39
- Occupied units165 plus or minus 33
- Vacant units28 plus or minus 16
- Vacancy rate14.5 percent plus or minus 7.8
- Owner occupied120 plus or minus 36
- Renter occupied45 plus or minus 19
- Ownership rate72.7 percent plus or minus 16.3
- Median owner-occupied home value$96,300
- Median gross rent, monthly$622
- Annual rent as a share of median income12.1 percent plus or minus 4.2
- Single family units169 plus or minus 40
- Share single family87.6 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more24 plus or minus 16
- Share in buildings of two or more12.4 percent plus or minus 8.1
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1957
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Comfrey
How Comfrey gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute192 plus or minus 48
- Commuting under 15 minutes79 plus or minus 29
- Share commuting under 15 minutes41.1 percent plus or minus 10.8
- Commuting 30 minutes or more64 plus or minus 22
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more33.3 percent plus or minus 8.0
- Drove alone83.6 percent plus or minus 28.7
- Carpooled5.6 percent plus or minus 8.6
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked8.7 percent plus or minus 5.8
- Worked from home1.5 percent plus or minus 2.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Brown County, not Comfrey
Brown County context, not Comfrey figures
These are Brown County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Comfrey measurements.
- Establishments in Brown County786
- Employment at those establishments, Brown County12,995
- Covered employment, Brown County13,221
- Average annual pay, Brown County$55,442
- Average weekly wage, Brown County$1,066
- Housing units permitted, Brown County35
- Of those, single family, Brown County27
- County product, 2024, Brown County$2,006,082,000
- County product change over the prior year, Brown County7.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Brown County$52,384
Every figure in this section is published for Brown County as a whole and is not a measurement of Comfrey. 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.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- 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
Comfrey questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Comfrey, Minnesota?
338, in 165 households. Comfrey city covers 0.43 square miles of land, which is 790 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Comfrey in?
Comfrey lies in more than one. By area it is 93.3 percent in Brown County, 6.7 percent in Cottonwood County. This page sits under Brown County because that county holds the largest share. The split is measured from the Census boundary of the place against the county boundaries.
What is the median household income in Comfrey?
$61,875. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $96,300. Median gross rent is $622 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Comfrey figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Brown 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 Comfrey.
Is zoning published for Comfrey?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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