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Darwin city, Minnesota: commercial real estate data.
Darwin city is a Census city of 358 people across 1.99 square miles of land, in Meeker County. Median household income is $70,000, 80.9 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 3 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $390,000.
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Darwin
What Darwin is
- Census place typecity
- Land area1.99 sq mi
- Water area0.08 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land179
- 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.
Darwin
How many people live in Darwin
- Population358
- Median age37.7
- Population under 1890 plus or minus 26
- Share under 1825.1 percent plus or minus 5.8
- Population 65 and over65 plus or minus 18
- Share 65 and over18.2 percent plus or minus 3.8
- Households136
- Family households80 plus or minus 20
- Share of households that are families58.8 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Darwin
Income and work in Darwin
- Median household income$70,000 plus or minus $23,450
- Per capita income$33,181
- Civilian labor force188 plus or minus 40
- Employed169 plus or minus 34
- Unemployed19 plus or minus 24
- Unemployment rate10.1 percent plus or minus 12.6
- Adults 25 and over222
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher89.2 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher16.2 percent plus or minus 8.1
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree2.3 percent plus or minus 5.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Darwin
Housing in Darwin
- Housing units151
- Occupied units136
- Vacant units15 plus or minus 13
- Vacancy rate9.9 percent plus or minus 8.4
- Owner occupied110
- Renter occupied26 plus or minus 14
- Ownership rate80.9 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$175,000
- Median gross rent, monthly$791
- Annual rent as a share of median income13.6 percent plus or minus 4.7
- Single family units122 plus or minus 25
- Share single family80.8 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more14 plus or minus 16
- Share in buildings of two or more9.3 percent plus or minus 10.2
- Mobile homes12 plus or minus 9
- Median year structure built1975
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Darwin
How Darwin gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute158 plus or minus 34
- Commuting under 15 minutes59 plus or minus 19
- Share commuting under 15 minutes37.3 percent plus or minus 8.7
- Commuting 30 minutes or more44 plus or minus 21
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more27.8 percent plus or minus 11.9
- Drove alone79.3 percent
- Carpooled7.3 percent plus or minus 5.9
- Public transport4.3 percent plus or minus 4.2
- Walked3.0 percent plus or minus 3.6
- Worked from home3.7 percent plus or minus 3.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Darwin
SBA 7(a) lending to Darwin borrowers
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$390,000
- Average approval$130,000
- Median approval$140,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$200,000
- Largest approval$200,000
- Jobs supported5
- Jobs per approval1.7
- Loans with a final outcome3
- Paid in full3
- Charged off0
- Median term84 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS3
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 3 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 Darwin
Meeker County context, not Darwin 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 Darwin 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 Darwin. 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
Darwin questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Darwin, Minnesota?
358, in 136 households. Darwin city covers 1.99 square miles of land, which is 179 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Darwin 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 Darwin?
$70,000. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $175,000. Median gross rent is $791 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Darwin businesses?
3 7(a) approvals totalling $390,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $140,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Darwin, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Darwin borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Darwin. only 3 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 Darwin 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 Darwin.
Is zoning published for Darwin?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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