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Brainerd city, Minnesota

People
Population14,468B01003
Population, 2020 census14,395P1
Median age35.1B01002
Under 1822.1%B01001
65 and over17.7%B01001
Households6,348B11001
Foreign born1.0%B05002
Money
Median household income$56,111B19013
Median family income$72,140B19113
Per capita income$31,316B19301
Poverty rate15.0%B17001
Unemployment rate9.0%B23025
Civilian labor force7,425B23025
Mean commute (minutes)19.8B08013
Education
Bachelor's degree or higher20.3%B15003
Housing
Housing units6,760B25001
Owner-occupied56.5%B25003
Renters43.5%B25003
Median home value$192,500B25077
Median gross rent$827B25064
Race and ethnicity
White, not Hispanic91.5%B03002
Black0.8%B03002
Hispanic or Latino3.1%B03002
Asian0.1%B03002
American Indian and Alaska Native1.4%B03002

Figures from the 2020-2024 American Community Survey five-year estimates (table codes link to the same table for this area at data.census.gov) and the 2020 census (P1), via IPUMS NHGIS. Estimates for small areas carry wide margins of error; a tract's figures describe its residents, not any one organization.

Against the county: median household income here is 77% of Crow Wing County's ($72,589); poverty 15.0% against 9.9%.

Map

Brainerd city: 14,468ZIP 56401: 362 nonprofits, $561,376,902ZIP 56425: 2 nonprofits, $607,789ZIP 56041: 1 nonprofits

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FURP records in Brainerd, MN

RecordsHow manyTotalBiggest
Nonprofits365$561,984,691 revenue (latest return)ST JOSEPH S MEDICAL CENTER ($320,979,644)
Nonprofit contractors32$221,865,392 paid by nonprofitsSHERIDAN ($129,183,047)
Colleges and schools14,532 enrollmentCentral Lakes College-Brainerd (4,532)
Form D issuers3$11,367,826 amount soldHunting Land Rentals By Owner, Inc. ($5,502,702)
Political committees7QUINN NYSTROM FOR CONGRESS
Form 5500 plan sponsors111135 plansBARRETT AG SERVICE, INC. (7)
Open Payments recipients116$113,936 industry paymentsEssentia Health Saint Josephs Medical Center ($26,656)
Patent and trademark owners67216 patents and marksLindy-Little Joe, Inc. (22)
Federal award recipients1,708$381,628,852 federal awardsMINNESOTA STATE COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ($148,794,576)
State business registrations135ANDERSON BROTHERS CONSTRUCTION HOLDINGS, INC.

Cross-reference: 365 nonprofits for 14,468 residents is 252.3 per 10,000 people; their latest-year revenue of $561,984,691 is $38,843 per resident, 157.8% of all household income here (households at the median income).

Highest-paid people on nonprofit returns here

#NameTitleOrganizationPayYearTimes the median household income
1NEIL KROLL MDPHYSICIANBRAINERD MEDICAL CENTER INC$1,436,525202425.6x
2JONATHAN VALESANO MDPHYSICIANBRAINERD MEDICAL CENTER INC$1,352,300202324.1x
3ABY PHILIP MDPHYSICIAN & SECTION CHAIRBRAINERD MEDICAL CENTER INC$1,281,332202422.8x
4JOHNATHAN VALESANO MDPHYSICIANBRAINERD MEDICAL CENTER INC$1,228,565202421.9x
5ROBERT POSCH MDPHYSICIANBRAINERD MEDICAL CENTER INC$1,223,899202421.8x
6TRACI MORRISTREASURER/REL ORG CHIEF FINCL OFFBRAINERD MEDICAL CENTER INC$1,199,416202421.4x
7CHRISTOPHER METZ MDPHYSICIAN & SECTION CHAIRBRAINERD MEDICAL CENTER INC$1,182,241202321.1x
8Kendahl SweetExecutive DirectorPINEHAVEN YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC$1,111,435202319.8x
9AMY LELWICA MDPHYSICIAN & SECTION CHAIRBRAINERD MEDICAL CENTER INC$1,082,121202419.3x
10MICHAEL RICH MDPHYSICIAN - SECTION CHAIRBRAINERD MEDICAL CENTER INC$910,008202016.2x

Each person's latest year on a 990 at a nonprofit placed here (reported pay including related organizations and other compensation); people paid under $50,000 are left out. The median household income here is $56,111.

Nonprofits: biggest by revenue (latest return)

Nonprofit contractors: biggest by paid by nonprofits

Colleges and schools: biggest by enrollment

Form D issuers: biggest by amount sold

Political committees

Form 5500 plan sponsors: biggest by plans

Open Payments recipients: biggest by industry payments

Patent and trademark owners: biggest by patents and marks

Federal award recipients: biggest by federal awards

Census figures are from IPUMS NHGIS: the American Community Survey 2020-2024 five-year estimates (ACS table codes shown with each figure) and the 2020 decennial census (Demographic and Housing Characteristics), by state, county, place and census tract. FURP records are placed by ZIP code (the Census Bureau's 2020 ZCTA-to-county and ZCTA-to-tract relationship files: the county or tract holding most of the ZIP's land) and by city name (Census place names, normalized), so a record's tract is its ZIP's main tract, not its street's. Cite: Jonathan Schroeder, David Van Riper, Steven Manson, Grace Cooper, Zachary Krause, Tracy Kugler, Tsu Zhu, and Steven Ruggles. IPUMS National Historical Geographic Information System: Version 21.0 [dataset]. Minneapolis, MN: IPUMS. 2026. http://doi.org/10.18128/D050.V21.0