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Insurance agencies in the Albert Lea, MN area
How the Albert Lea, MN area compares with other small-town markets and the U.S. for insurance agencies: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 38 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #365 of 537 scored small-town markets
#5 of 18 scored small-town markets based in Minnesota
- Listings
- 16
- 2 chain locations (13%)
- Official establishments
- 13
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $21.9M
- On vehicle insurance · $1,706 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.4M
- 9% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 12.5
- 20% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 30,440
- −1.5% since 2020
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What this means
At $1,706 per household (13% below the U.S. average), households in the Albert Lea area spend about $21.9M a year on vehicle insurance. That is about $1.4M of household spending for each agency on map listings, 9% above the U.S. figure of $1.3M.
There are 16 insurance agencies on map listings in the Albert Lea area as of September 2026. Of those, 2 are chain locations, or 13%, against 21% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 12.5, 20% below the U.S. rate of 15.6.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in the Albert Lea area was 13 in 2023. That is one for every 988 households, against one for every 966 across the U.S.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Albert Lea area declined 1.5%, against +3.1% for the U.S. For insurance agencies, the Albert Lea area has a Groundwork market score of 38 (lower middle): #365 of 537 scored small-town markets and #5 of 18 scored small-town markets based in Minnesota.
How the Albert Lea area compares
The same measures for Minnesota and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all vehicle insurance by the insurance agencies counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Albert Lea area | Minnesota | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 12.5 | 17.3 | 15.6 |
| Spending per listing | $1.4M | $951K | $1.3M |
| Households per official establishment | 988 | 737 | 966 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | −2.3% | −1.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −1.5% | +2.1% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on vehicle insurance | $1,706 | $1,649 | $1,957 |
| Median household income | $71,023 | $89,062 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 38 | 22 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 13
- Employees, 2023
- 52
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $3.8M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 162 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 18The 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 insurance agencies and brokerages in the Albert Lea 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 Albert Lea area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 30,440−1.5% since 2020
- Households
- 12,846
- Median age
- 45.4
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 80%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 707 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 43
- Median household income
- $71,023+32.4% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $93,926
- Median home value
- $171,100
- Jobs located here
- 11,051
- Daytime population
- 27,708Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top small-town markets in Minnesota
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Grand Rapids, MN | 51 | 22 | 11.9 | $1.5M | +0.9% | #255 of 537 |
| 2Brainerd, MN | 45 | 60 | 14.2 | $1.3M | +4.3% | #308 of 537 |
| 3Austin, MN | 45 | 23 | 14.6 | $1.2M | +2.3% | #309 of 537 |
| 4Detroit Lakes, MN | 39 | 20 | 13.9 | $1.4M | +0.9% | #360 of 537 |
| 5Albert Lea, MN | 38 | 16 | 12.5 | $1.4M | −1.5% | #365 of 537 |
| 6Faribault-Northfield, MN | 38 | 35 | 14.9 | $1.2M | +4.2% | #369 of 537 |
| 7Winona, MN | 37 | 32 | 15.8 | $1.1M | +1.8% | #385 of 537 |
| 8Bemidji, MN | 35 | 32 | 17.6 | $990K | +1.8% | #402 of 537 |
| 9Worthington, MN | 32 | 11 | 14.3 | $1.2M | +0.6% | #423 of 537 |
| 10Alexandria, MN | 28 | 39 | 22.3 | $797K | +2.6% | #447 of 537 |
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Questions
How many insurance agencies are in the Albert Lea, MN area?
As of September 2026, map listings count 16 insurance agencies in the Albert Lea area. 2 of them (13%) are chain locations. The listings count insurance agencies. Official counts show 13 businesses with payroll classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in 2023.
How much do households in the Albert Lea, MN area spend on vehicle insurance?
About $21.9M a year, or $1,706 per household. That is 13% below the U.S. average (an index of 87, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 16 insurance agencies on map listings, it comes to $1.4M per agency. It is estimated from the incomes of the 12,846 households in the Albert Lea area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Albert Lea, MN area compare with the U.S. for insurance agencies?
The Albert Lea area has 12.5 insurance agencies per 10,000 households, 20% below the U.S. rate of 15.6. Spending per agency is $1.4M, 9% above the U.S. figure of $1.3M. At the U.S. ratio of insurance agencies to household spending, the Albert Lea area would have about 18, against 16 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 988 households, against one for every 966 across the U.S.
How fast is the Albert Lea, MN area growing?
Population estimates put the Albert Lea area at 30,440 people in 2025, down 1.5% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 12,846 households. Median household income in the Albert Lea area is $71,023, 12% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 32.4%, 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. The Albert Lea area scores 38 for insurance agencies (lower middle), #365 of 537 scored small-town markets.
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