Blomkest, Minnesota.
. Willmar, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$893 (+95%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
Living in Blomkest, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota
Blomkest is a city of 145 people in Kandiyohi County. Half its households earn more than $62,083 a year and half less, against $76,592 across Kandiyohi County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Kandiyohi County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Kandiyohi County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Blomkest is a very small city in Kandiyohi County, small enough that neighbors tend to know one another. Household incomes run below the county's, and only a small share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month, and snow is a regular part of the season, while July brings warm days.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also common. Across Kandiyohi County, some of the largest workplaces are Jennie-O Turkey Store, the Willmar Public School District and Carris Health. The trip to work is short, and some people work from home. Unemployment across the county has risen over the past year, and the number of jobs there has grown only slightly.
Things to do. Lake Lillian is a lake a short drive away, and it is the closest of the nearby waters. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Sibley State Park, a protected area, and Lake Elizabeth, another lake. Upper Sioux Agency State Park, an archaeological site, is also a longer drive away.
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- 5%below the poverty line
- 14 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Kandiyohi County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kandiyohi County had 23,281 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 20° and lows near 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 46 inches of snow and 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Willmar Wwtp weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kandiyohi County
- Jennie-O Turkey StoreTurkeys, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked1,131
- Willmar Public School DistrictSchool district684FTE
- Carris HealthGeneral hospital619FTE
- DuininckPavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction613
- BethesdaNursing homes485
- Jennie-O Turkey StoreTurkey production484
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters381
- CentraCare Willmar ClinicOther ambulatory health care services321
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 101 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,536 people in all across the county; Blomkest has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Blomkest’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 Kandiyohi County and the Willmar, MN metro.
Blomkest home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Blomkest5
Zip codes with a Blomkest address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Blomkest — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.