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Browns Valley city, Minnesota: commercial real estate data.
Browns Valley city is a Census city of 382 people across 0.79 square miles of land, in Traverse County. Median household income is $49,250, 73.5 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $195,000.
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Browns Valley
What Browns Valley is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.79 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land483 plus or minus 116
- County holding the largest share of its areaTraverse 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.
Browns Valley
How many people live in Browns Valley
- Population382 plus or minus 92
- Median age50.6
- Population under 1867 plus or minus 36
- Share under 1817.5 percent plus or minus 8.4
- Population 65 and over94 plus or minus 49
- Share 65 and over24.6 percent plus or minus 11.5
- Households147 plus or minus 42
- Family households102 plus or minus 39
- Share of households that are families69.4 percent plus or minus 17.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Browns Valley
Income and work in Browns Valley
- Median household income$49,250
- Per capita income$27,123 plus or minus $9,164
- Civilian labor force220 plus or minus 83
- Employed196 plus or minus 88
- Unemployed24 plus or minus 27
- Unemployment rate10.9 percent plus or minus 11.6
- Adults 25 and over278 plus or minus 81
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher82.7 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher5.8 percent plus or minus 4.8
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree1.4 percent plus or minus 3.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Browns Valley
Housing in Browns Valley
- Housing units266 plus or minus 61
- Occupied units147 plus or minus 42
- Vacant units119 plus or minus 48
- Vacancy rate44.7 percent plus or minus 14.8
- Owner occupied108 plus or minus 43
- Renter occupied39 plus or minus 20
- Ownership rate73.5 percent plus or minus 20.4
- Median owner-occupied home value$73,800
- Single family units207 plus or minus 50
- Share single family77.8 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more59 plus or minus 42
- Share in buildings of two or more22.2 percent plus or minus 15.1
- Mobile homes0
- Median year structure built1946
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Browns Valley
How Browns Valley gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute122 plus or minus 45
- Commuting under 15 minutes49 plus or minus 24
- Share commuting under 15 minutes40.2 percent plus or minus 13.2
- Commuting 30 minutes or more7 plus or minus 11
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more5.7 percent plus or minus 9.2
- Drove alone62.2 percent plus or minus 39.6
- Carpooled0.0 percent
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked8.7 percent plus or minus 7.6
- Worked from home29.1 percent plus or minus 23.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Browns Valley
SBA 7(a) lending to Browns Valley borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$195,000
- Average approval$195,000
- Median approval$195,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$195,000
- Largest approval$195,000
- Jobs supported2
- Jobs per approval2.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term60 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.
Traverse County, not Browns Valley
Traverse County context, not Browns Valley figures
These are Traverse County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Browns Valley measurements.
- Establishments in Traverse County121
- Employment at those establishments, Traverse County732
- Covered employment, Traverse County1,069
- Average annual pay, Traverse County$48,921
- Average weekly wage, Traverse County$941
- Housing units permitted, Traverse County4
- Of those, single family, Traverse County4
- County product, 2024, Traverse County$347,534,000
- County product change over the prior year, Traverse County12.7 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Traverse County$51,328
Every figure in this section is published for Traverse County as a whole and is not a measurement of Browns Valley. 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
Browns Valley questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Browns Valley, Minnesota?
382, in 147 households. Browns Valley city covers 0.79 square miles of land, which is 483 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Browns Valley in?
Traverse 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 Browns Valley?
$49,250. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $73,800. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Browns Valley businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $195,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $195,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Browns Valley, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Browns Valley borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Browns Valley. 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 Browns Valley figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Traverse 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 Browns Valley.
Is zoning published for Browns Valley?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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