Danvers, Minnesota.
Typical home $384,929 (+5.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$889 (+79%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $20,764 +6%
- $364,165$384,929 since Sep 2025
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.
- Danvers$2,020
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Danvers, MN rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Danvers, Swift County, Minnesota
Danvers is a city of 103 people in Swift County. Half its households earn more than $122,727 a year and half less, against $60,412 across Swift County. 95% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 5% are rented. Unemployment in Swift County was 8.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Swift County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Danvers is a city in Swift County in west-central Minnesota, and it is a very small community where neighbors tend to know one another. Household incomes here are well above the county's average, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are colder than in most of the country, with heavy snowfall, while summers are warm and the rain is moderate.
Work. Residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in farming, forestry and mining, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Relatively few people work from home, so most people commute to a job. Across Swift County, the number of jobs fell over the past year.
Things to do. Lac qui Parle State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away and offers a quiet place to spend a day outdoors. Glacial Lakes State Park, also a protected area, is likewise a longer drive off. The Arv Hus Museum, a longer drive away, is a museum for those who enjoy learning about the area's history.
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- 33 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Swift County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Swift County had 3,627 jobs in 2025, 2.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 21° and lows near 1°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 43 inches of snow and 28 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Benson weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Swift County
- CNH Industrial AmericaFarm machinery & equipment mfg.365
- Benson Public School DistrictSchool district139FTE
- Kerkhoven-murdock-sunburg SchoolsSchool district121FTE
- CentroMotor vehicle moldings and extrusions, plastics, manufacturing84
- Appleton Municipal HospitalCritical access hospital82FTE
- KMS ElementaryK-12 education82
- Centracare BensonCritical access hospital70FTE
- KMS SecondaryK-12 education64
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,574 people in all across the county; Danvers 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
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Danvers’ 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 Swift County.
Danvers home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Danvers$384,929
- 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 Danvers address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Danvers — 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.