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Housing in Two Rivers

A typical Two Rivers home is worth roughly $308,000

Typical home value
$308K
MN $351K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,080
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$2,419
MN $3,357

What kind of housing town is Two Rivers?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · The homes

97% of Two Rivers households own their home

Half of Two Rivers’s homes were built before 1991.

Owners and renters
Own 97%Rent 3%

Minnesota: 72% own.

1991
typical home built · MN 1979
$2,419
median property tax bill · MN $3,357
0.79%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · MN 1.02%
4%
of homes are seasonal or vacation homes

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

Affordability

A typical home costs 3.1 years of income

Less than across Minnesota (3.9 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$400,000
Typical Two Rivers home $308K

That covers a typical Two Rivers home, with $92K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$1,810
Loan $1,520Tax $200Insurance $90

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,080 a month here, $730 less than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Two Rivers’s typical property tax (0.79% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,080

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$790
1 bedroom$840
2 bedrooms$1,080
3 bedrooms$1,480
4 bedrooms$1,640
3%
of households rent · MN 28%
4
renter households

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (St. Cloud, MN MSA): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

Next door

Two Rivers vs. its neighbors

Two Rivers is the 3rd least expensive of 6 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentMedian income
Two Rivers$308K*—$1,080$100,625
Langola$370K*+2.8%†$1,210$114,167
Bellevue$356K*−1.9%†$1,030$113,958
Swan River$224K+0.1%$1,000$76,625
Elmdale$294K*—$1,090$80,833
Brockway$363K*+3.5%†$1,250$116,250

Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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