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Cook city, Minnesota: commercial real estate data.
Cook city is a Census city of 423 people across 2.60 square miles of land, in St. Louis County. Median household income is $42,250, 67.3 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 4 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.1 m.
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Cook
What Cook is
- Census place typecity
- Land area2.6 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land163
- County holding the largest share of its areaSt. Louis 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.
Cook
How many people live in Cook
- Population423
- Median age58.1 plus or minus 11.6
- Population under 1852 plus or minus 21
- Share under 1812.3 percent plus or minus 4.5
- Population 65 and over161 plus or minus 60
- Share 65 and over38.1 percent plus or minus 12.4
- Households251 plus or minus 54
- Family households76 plus or minus 23
- Share of households that are families30.3 percent plus or minus 6.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cook
Income and work in Cook
- Median household income$42,250 plus or minus $14,053
- Per capita income$40,399
- Civilian labor force187 plus or minus 55
- Employed173 plus or minus 52
- Unemployed14 plus or minus 18
- Unemployment rate7.5 percent plus or minus 9.4
- Adults 25 and over348
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher96.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher24.1 percent plus or minus 14.5
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree9.5 percent plus or minus 6.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cook
Housing in Cook
- Housing units285
- Occupied units251 plus or minus 54
- Vacant units34 plus or minus 23
- Vacancy rate11.9 percent plus or minus 7.7
- Owner occupied169 plus or minus 52
- Renter occupied82 plus or minus 25
- Ownership rate67.3 percent plus or minus 14.8
- Median owner-occupied home value$104,900 plus or minus $30,049
- Median gross rent, monthly$535
- Annual rent as a share of median income15.2 percent plus or minus 5.2
- Single family units193 plus or minus 50
- Share single family67.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more77 plus or minus 26
- Share in buildings of two or more27.0 percent plus or minus 7.7
- Mobile homes15 plus or minus 13
- Median year structure built1971
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cook
How Cook gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute161 plus or minus 48
- Commuting under 15 minutes90 plus or minus 42
- Share commuting under 15 minutes55.9 percent plus or minus 19.9
- Commuting 30 minutes or more41 plus or minus 20
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more25.5 percent plus or minus 9.5
- Drove alone76.7 percent
- Carpooled9.3 percent plus or minus 7.6
- Public transport1.7 percent plus or minus 2.3
- Walked5.8 percent plus or minus 3.7
- Worked from home6.4 percent plus or minus 6.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Cook
SBA 7(a) lending to Cook borrowers
- Approvals4
- Gross approval$1,057,700
- Average approval$264,425
- Median approval$250,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$729,000
- Largest approval$729,000
- Jobs supported13
- Jobs per approval3.3
- Loans with a final outcome2
- Paid in full2
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders3
- Distinct industries by NAICS4
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.
Cook
SBA 504 lending to Cook borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$1,094,000
- Average approval$1,094,000
- Median approval$1,094,000
- Largest approval$1,094,000
- Jobs supported20
- 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.
St. Louis County, not Cook
St. Louis County context, not Cook figures
These are St. Louis County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Cook measurements.
- Establishments in St. Louis County5,360
- Employment at those establishments, St. Louis County84,223
- Covered employment, St. Louis County95,504
- Average annual pay, St. Louis County$60,452
- Average weekly wage, St. Louis County$1,163
- Housing units permitted, St. Louis County637
- Of those, single family, St. Louis County293
- County product, 2024, St. Louis County$13,873,687,000
- County product change over the prior year, St. Louis County1.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, St. Louis County$61,324
Every figure in this section is published for St. Louis County as a whole and is not a measurement of Cook. 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
Cook questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Cook, Minnesota?
423, in 251 households. Cook city covers 2.60 square miles of land, which is 163 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Cook in?
St. Louis 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 Cook?
$42,250. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $104,900. Median gross rent is $535 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Cook businesses?
4 7(a) approvals totalling $1.1 m, across 3 lenders, median approval $250,000, plus 1 504 approvals worth $1.1 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Cook, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Cook borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Cook. 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 Cook figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for St. Louis 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 Cook.
Is zoning published for Cook?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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