Audubon, Minnesota.
Typical home $470,305 (+6.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,389 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $26,554 +6%
- $443,751$470,305 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $104,759 +29%
- $365,546$470,305 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Audubon$2,469
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Audubon, MN rose 6.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Audubon, Becker County, Minnesota
Audubon is a city of 560 people in Becker County. Half its households earn more than $67,500 a year and half less, against $71,388 across Becker County. Unemployment in Becker County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Audubon is a very small city in Becker County, Minnesota, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Household incomes run a little below the county's, while the typical home is worth a good deal, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow, and summers are warm and mild by comparison.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Becker County, some of the largest workplaces are Lakeshirts, St. Marys Regional Health Center and Detroit Lakes Public School District. The typical commute is a short one, and very few people work from home. Unemployment across the county has risen a little over the past year, though the county has added jobs.
Things to do. Hamden Slough National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area in or beside town, is the closest place to watch birds and walk outdoors. Detroit Lake is a short drive away for time on the water, and the Pelican River, also a short drive away, is another spot to spend a day outside. For a longer outing, Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge is a longer drive away.
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- 156households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 20 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Becker County had 15,368 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 17° and lows near -4°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 58°. About 48 inches of snow and 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Detroit Lakes Nne weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Becker County
- LakeshirtsPrinting, screen709
- St. Marys Regional Health CenterGeneral hospital435FTE
- Detroit Lakes Public School DistSchool district434FTE
- BTD ManufacturingMetal manufacturing414
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters374
- Minnesota Department of TransportationTransportation departments, nonoperating292
- SJE-RhombusControllers for process variables manufacturing235
- District WideK-12 education229
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 60 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,104 people in all across the county; Audubon has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Winter weatherVery high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Audubon’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Becker County.
Audubon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Audubon$470,305
- Minnesota$348,778
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Audubon listings — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Audubon32.80%
- United States25.56%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Audubon18
Zip codes with a Audubon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Audubon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.