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Cosmos city, Minnesota: commercial real estate data.
Cosmos city is a Census city of 536 people across 0.98 square miles of land, in Meeker County. Median household income is $56,635, 83.0 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $335,000.
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Cosmos
What Cosmos is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.98 sq mi
- Water area0.02 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land549 plus or minus 122
- County holding the largest share of its areaMeeker 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.
Cosmos
How many people live in Cosmos
- Population536 plus or minus 119
- Median age47.1
- Population under 1877 plus or minus 26
- Share under 1814.4 percent plus or minus 3.8
- Population 65 and over74 plus or minus 19
- Share 65 and over13.8 percent
- Households265 plus or minus 59
- Family households126 plus or minus 29
- Share of households that are families47.5 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cosmos
Income and work in Cosmos
- Median household income$56,635 plus or minus $13,169
- Per capita income$36,398
- Civilian labor force339 plus or minus 99
- Employed330 plus or minus 100
- Unemployed9 plus or minus 8
- Unemployment rate2.7 percent plus or minus 2.2
- Adults 25 and over421 plus or minus 102
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher93.8 percent plus or minus 31.9
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher10.0 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree1.7 percent plus or minus 2.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cosmos
Housing in Cosmos
- Housing units265 plus or minus 59
- Occupied units265 plus or minus 59
- Vacant units0
- Vacancy rate0.0 percent
- Owner occupied220 plus or minus 56
- Renter occupied45 plus or minus 27
- Ownership rate83.0 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$105,500
- Median gross rent, monthly$685
- Annual rent as a share of median income14.5 percent plus or minus 3.4
- Single family units223 plus or minus 54
- Share single family84.2 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more29 plus or minus 28
- Share in buildings of two or more10.9 percent plus or minus 10.4
- Mobile homes13 plus or minus 6
- Median year structure built1957
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cosmos
How Cosmos gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute320 plus or minus 99
- Commuting under 15 minutes100 plus or minus 44
- Share commuting under 15 minutes31.3 percent plus or minus 9.9
- Commuting 30 minutes or more94 plus or minus 33
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more29.4 percent
- Drove alone85.8 percent
- Carpooled6.7 percent plus or minus 4.7
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked4.5 percent plus or minus 2.7
- Worked from home3.0 percent plus or minus 2.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cosmos
SBA loans in Cosmos (7(a))
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$335,000
- Average approval$335,000
- Median approval$335,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$335,000
- Largest approval$335,000
- Jobs supported8
- Jobs per approval8.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term180 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 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.
Meeker County, not Cosmos
Meeker County context, not Cosmos figures
These are Meeker County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Cosmos measurements.
- Establishments in Meeker County606
- Employment at those establishments, Meeker County6,775
- Covered employment, Meeker County8,042
- Average annual pay, Meeker County$53,874
- Average weekly wage, Meeker County$1,036
- Housing units permitted, Meeker County71
- Of those, single family, Meeker County66
- County product, 2024, Meeker County$1,585,742,000
- County product change over the prior year, Meeker County1.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Meeker County$67,172
Every figure in this section is published for Meeker County as a whole and is not a measurement of Cosmos. 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
Cosmos questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Cosmos, Minnesota?
536, in 265 households. Cosmos city covers 0.98 square miles of land, which is 549 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Cosmos in?
Meeker 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 Cosmos?
$56,635. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $105,500. Median gross rent is $685 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Cosmos businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $335,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $335,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Cosmos, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Cosmos borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Cosmos. 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 Cosmos figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Meeker 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 Cosmos.
Is zoning published for Cosmos?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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