Delano, Minnesota.
Typical home $440,606 (-0.3% in a year). Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,111 (+92%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,132 -0%
- $441,738$440,606 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,143 +10%
- $399,463$440,606 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.
- Delano$2,313
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 35 years.
Typical home values in Delano, MN fell 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Delano, Wright County, Minnesota
Delano is a city of 6,484 people in Wright County. Half its households earn more than $109,946 a year and half less, against $107,209 across Wright County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Wright County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Delano is a small city in Wright County, with households that earn somewhat more than the county as a whole and very few living below the poverty line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and many adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January highs staying well below freezing, while July brings warm summer days.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, the building trades and manufacturing. In town, Landscape Structures, which makes playground equipment, and the Delano Public School District are among the largest workplaces. Commutes are fairly long for many, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Crow River is a short drive away, and it is the closest of the nearby places. A longer drive brings you to the Minneapolis Institute of Art, one of the area's best known museums, and to Lake Minnetonka, a large lake for a day by the water.
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- 2,605households
- 48%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wright County had 49,245 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 23° and lows near 4°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Delano weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Delano
- Landscape Structures - PLAYGymnasium and playground equipment, manufacturing732
- Delano Public School DistrictSchool district254FTE
- City of DelanoLegislative bodies82
- Railway Equipment CompanyAntennas, transmitting and receiving, manufacturing56
- Arctic FoxFabricated pipe and pipe fittings made from purchased pipe52
- LifesparkAssisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities49
- Monarch Healthcare ManagementNursing homes49
- Tank HoldingTanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing39
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,518 people in all. School districts come 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
- Strong windVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Delano’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 Wright County and the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
Delano home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Delano$440,606
- 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 4 Delano 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.
- Delano24.52%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Delano36
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Delano12
Zip codes with a Delano address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Delano — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.