Danube, Minnesota.
Typical home $186,525 (+4.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$517 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,095 +4%
- $179,429$186,525 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $29,809 +19%
- $156,716$186,525 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.
- Danube$979
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Danube, MN rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Danube, Renville County, Minnesota
Danube is a city of 458 people in Renville County. Half its households earn more than $61,944 a year and half less, against $70,625 across Renville County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Renville County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Renville 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Danube is a very small farm-country city in Renville County, where most of the surrounding land is given over to crops. Residents are younger on average than in many small towns, and few are without a four-year degree by choice or circumstance; most adults here have not gone on to one. Household incomes run below the county's, and homes are modestly priced.
Work. People who live here work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, farming and shops close behind. Across Renville County, the largest workplaces include the Southern Minnesota Beet sugar cooperative, Olivia Hospital and Clinics, and the county government itself. The trip to work is short, and the county's unemployment has risen a little over the past year.
Things to do. Several places lie a longer drive away. Upper Sioux Agency State Park is an archaeological site, and Fort Ridgely is a fort with a state park around it, both tied to the history of the Minnesota River valley. For something indoors, the Fagen Fighters WWII Museum is a museum, and Tiger Lake is a lake for time near the water. Winters here are cold and snowy, and summers are warm.
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- 212households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Renville County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Renville County had 5,595 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 21° and lows near 2°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 59°. About 38 inches of snow and 28 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Olivia 3E weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Renville County
- Southern Minnesota Beet sugar cooperativeRaw beet sugar manufacturing505
- Renville CountyExecutive and legislative office combinations224
- HealthPartners, Inc.General medical and surgical hospitals137
- RCW KK-12 education109
- Transystems LLC - Renville ProjectAgricultural products trucking, local106
- Olivia Hospital and ClinicsCritical access hospital103FTE
- Bird Island-olivia-lake Lillian SchoolsSchool district88FTE
- Buffalo Lake Healthcare CenterSkilled nursing facility85
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,745 people in all across the county; Danube has none 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
- Strong windVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Danube’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Renville County.
Danube home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Danube$186,525
- Minnesota$348,778
- United States$366,157
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.
Zip codes with a Danube address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Danube — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.