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Trail city, Minnesota: commercial real estate data.
Trail city is a Census city of 16 people across 1.00 square miles of land, in Polk County. Median household income is $60,000, 100.0 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 4 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.4 m.
64 sourced place values · tier FULL · 7 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
This is a small place, and the figures below carry wide margins.
The American Community Survey reaches Trail through a sample, not a count, and in a place this size that sample is thin. The population estimate here is 16 with a margin of error of plus or minus 10, which is 62.5 percent of the estimate itself. Every figure whose margin reaches 20 percent is printed with that margin beside it, so you can see the width of each one rather than having to assume it.
Nothing has been removed or adjusted. These are the published federal estimates, shown with the uncertainty the Census publishes alongside them.
Trail
What Trail is
- Census place typecity
- Land area1 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land16 plus or minus 10
- County holding the largest share of its areaPolk 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.
Trail
How many people live in Trail
- Population16 plus or minus 10
- Median age63.5
- Population under 180
- Share under 180.0 percent
- Population 65 and over6 plus or minus 11
- Share 65 and over37.5 percent plus or minus 64.3
- Households10 plus or minus 6
- Family households6 plus or minus 5
- Share of households that are families60.0 percent plus or minus 34.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Trail
Income and work in Trail
- Median household income$60,000 plus or minus $19,989
- Per capita income$31,788 plus or minus $20,741
- Civilian labor force4 plus or minus 4
- Employed4 plus or minus 4
- Unemployed0
- Unemployment rate0.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over16 plus or minus 10
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher81.3 percent plus or minus 63.1
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher0.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Trail
Housing in Trail
- Housing units21 plus or minus 9
- Occupied units10 plus or minus 6
- Vacant units11 plus or minus 9
- Vacancy rate52.4 percent plus or minus 36.5
- Owner occupied10 plus or minus 6
- Renter occupied0
- Ownership rate100.0 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$32,500 plus or minus $15,965
- Single family units17 plus or minus 13
- Share single family81.0 percent plus or minus 53.9
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes4 plus or minus 5
- Median year structure built1944
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Trail
How Trail gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute4 plus or minus 4
- Commuting under 15 minutes0
- Share commuting under 15 minutes0.0 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more4 plus or minus 12
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more100.0 percent plus or minus 271.6
- Drove alone100.0 percent
- Carpooled0.0 percent
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Trail
SBA loans in Trail (7(a))
- Approvals4
- Gross approval$1,441,000
- Average approval$360,250
- Median approval$200,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,200,000
- Largest approval$1,200,000
- Jobs supported28
- Jobs per approval7.0
- Loans with a final outcome2
- Paid in full2
- 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 2 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.
Polk County, not Trail
Polk County context, not Trail figures
These are Polk County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Trail measurements.
- Establishments in Polk County733
- Employment at those establishments, Polk County8,944
- Covered employment, Polk County12,036
- Average annual pay, Polk County$54,723
- Average weekly wage, Polk County$1,052
- Housing units permitted, Polk County44
- Of those, single family, Polk County44
- County product, 2024, Polk County$1,694,090,000
- County product change over the prior year, Polk County-4.0 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Polk County$52,606
Every figure in this section is published for Polk County as a whole and is not a measurement of Trail. 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
Trail questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Trail, Minnesota?
16, in 10 households. Trail city covers 1.00 square miles of land, which is 16 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Trail in?
Polk 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 Trail?
$60,000. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $32,500. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Trail businesses?
4 7(a) approvals totalling $1.4 m, across 1 lenders, median approval $200,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Trail, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Trail borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Trail. only 2 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 Trail figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Polk 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 Trail.
Is zoning published for Trail?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.