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Hayward city, Minnesota: commercial real estate data.
Hayward city is a Census city of 231 people across 0.61 square miles of land, in Freeborn County. Median household income is $61,250, 83.2 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Hayward
What Hayward is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.61 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land379 plus or minus 87
- County holding the largest share of its areaFreeborn 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.
Hayward
How many people live in Hayward
- Population231 plus or minus 53
- Median age48.3 plus or minus 10.7
- Population under 1836 plus or minus 16
- Share under 1815.6 percent plus or minus 6.0
- Population 65 and over58 plus or minus 19
- Share 65 and over25.1 percent plus or minus 6.1
- Households107 plus or minus 25
- Family households63 plus or minus 22
- Share of households that are families58.9 percent plus or minus 15.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hayward
Income and work in Hayward
- Median household income$61,250 plus or minus $16,413
- Per capita income$38,688
- Civilian labor force121 plus or minus 29
- Employed120 plus or minus 29
- Unemployed1 plus or minus 2
- Unemployment rate0.8 percent plus or minus 1.6
- Adults 25 and over181 plus or minus 40
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher91.7 percent plus or minus 28.5
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher6.6 percent plus or minus 6.8
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree1.1 percent plus or minus 5.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hayward
Housing in Hayward
- Housing units111 plus or minus 26
- Occupied units107 plus or minus 25
- Vacant units4 plus or minus 6
- Vacancy rate3.6 percent plus or minus 5.3
- Owner occupied89 plus or minus 21
- Renter occupied18 plus or minus 13
- Ownership rate83.2 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$114,000
- Single family units103 plus or minus 26
- Share single family92.8 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more8 plus or minus 13
- Share in buildings of two or more7.2 percent plus or minus 11.4
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1966
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hayward
How Hayward gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute110 plus or minus 28
- Commuting under 15 minutes40 plus or minus 17
- Share commuting under 15 minutes36.4 percent plus or minus 12.2
- Commuting 30 minutes or more21 plus or minus 14
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more19.1 percent plus or minus 11.8
- Drove alone87.1 percent
- Carpooled7.8 percent plus or minus 8.4
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home5.2 percent plus or minus 3.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hayward
SBA 504 lending to Hayward borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$339,000
- Average approval$339,000
- Median approval$339,000
- Largest approval$339,000
- Jobs supported0
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs1
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Freeborn County, not Hayward
Freeborn County context, not Hayward figures
These are Freeborn County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Hayward measurements.
- Establishments in Freeborn County755
- Employment at those establishments, Freeborn County10,861
- Covered employment, Freeborn County11,963
- Average annual pay, Freeborn County$53,099
- Average weekly wage, Freeborn County$1,021
- Housing units permitted, Freeborn County16
- Of those, single family, Freeborn County16
- County product, 2024, Freeborn County$1,740,083,000
- County product change over the prior year, Freeborn County1.7 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Freeborn County$49,790
Every figure in this section is published for Freeborn County as a whole and is not a measurement of Hayward. 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.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- 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
Hayward questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Hayward, Minnesota?
231, in 107 households. Hayward city covers 0.61 square miles of land, which is 379 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Hayward in?
Freeborn 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 Hayward?
$61,250. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $114,000. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Hayward figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Freeborn 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 Hayward.
Is zoning published for Hayward?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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