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Home inspectors in the Brainerd, MN area
The home inspectors in the Brainerd, MN area, the household spending behind them and how the market ranks against other small-town markets.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
Too few small-town markets have 5 or more listings to score them against each other.
- Listings
- 7
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $582.3M
- On rent and homeowner costs · $13,774 a household
- Housing spending per listing (U.S. = 100)
- 32
- 68% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 1.7
- 2.8 times the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 100,562
- +4.3% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 7 home inspectors in the Brainerd area. None of them are chain locations, against 3% across the U.S. That comes to 1.7 for every 10,000 households, 2.8 times the U.S. rate of 0.6.
At $13,774 per household (17% below the U.S. average), households in the Brainerd area spend about $582.3M a year on rent and homeowner costs. Housing spending per business is 68% below the U.S. figure. That figure is all rent and homeowner costs, used as a measure of housing demand; it is not money home inspectors take in.
There is no official count of businesses with payroll classed as building inspection services in the Brainerd area: counts under 3 aren’t published.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Brainerd area grew 4.3%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). Too few small-town markets have 5 or more home inspectors on map listings to score them against each other.
How the Brainerd area compares
The same measures for Minnesota and the whole U.S. Housing spending per listing divides all rent and homeowner costs by the listings counted: a measure of housing demand for each business, not money any of them take in, so it is shown against the U.S. (100) only. Households per establishment divides households by the official count.
| Measure | Brainerd area | Minnesota | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.6 |
| Housing spending per listing (U.S. = 100) | 32 | 88 | 100 |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 18,173 | 17,237 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | −3.8% | +6.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +4.3% | +2.1% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on rent and homeowner costs | $13,774 | $15,162 | $16,661 |
| Median household income | $71,384 | $89,062 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 34 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- n/a
- Employees, 2023
- n/a
- Annual payroll, 2023
- n/a
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 70 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 2The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as building inspection services in the Brainerd area, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in the Brainerd area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 100,562+4.3% since 2020
- Households
- 42,276
- Median age
- 46.9
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 80%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 3,020 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 33
- Median household income
- $71,384+29.4% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $93,780
- Median home value
- $301,000
- Jobs located here
- 39,612
- Daytime population
- 95,720Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Questions
How many home inspectors are in the Brainerd, MN area?
There are 7 home inspectors on map listings in the Brainerd area as of September 2026. None of them are chain locations. The listings count home inspectors. No official count is published for building inspection services in the Brainerd area: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in the Brainerd, MN area spend on rent and homeowner costs?
About $582.3M a year, or $13,774 per household. That is 17% below the U.S. average (an index of 83, where 100 is the U.S. average). For the 7 home inspectors on map listings, housing spending per business is 68% below the U.S. figure. The spending figure is all rent and homeowner costs, a measure of housing demand, not money home inspectors take in. It is estimated from the incomes of the 42,276 households in the Brainerd area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Brainerd, MN area compare with the U.S. for home inspectors?
The Brainerd area has 1.7 home inspectors per 10,000 households, 2.8 times the U.S. rate of 0.6. The index of housing spending per business is 32, where 100 is the U.S. At the national ratio of home inspectors to household spending, the Brainerd area would have about 2, against 7 on map listings.
How fast is the Brainerd, MN area growing?
Population estimates put the Brainerd area at 100,562 people in 2025, up 4.3% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 42,276 households. Median household income in the Brainerd area is $71,384, 12% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 29.4%, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. A small-town market is a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people and the county or counties tied to it by commuting. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. Too few small-town markets have 5 or more home inspectors on map listings to score them against each other.
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