Delavan, Minnesota.
Typical home $200,506 (+8.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$492 (+88%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $16,038 +9%
- $184,468$200,506 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.
- Delavan$1,052
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Delavan, MN rose 8.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Delavan, Faribault County, Minnesota
Delavan is a city of 172 people in Faribault County. Half its households earn more than $63,125 a year and half less, against $66,815 across Faribault County. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Faribault County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Faribault 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Delavan is a very small city in Faribault County, Minnesota, where almost everyone who lives in town owns their home. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, farming and the building trades also well represented. Across Faribault County, some of the largest workplaces are Wells Concrete Products Company, United Hospital District and Brakebush Wells. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Bass Lake and Lura Lake are both lakes a short drive away, and Badger Creek is a creek a short drive away as well. For a longer outing, Minneopa State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 76households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 30 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Faribault County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Faribault County had 4,468 jobs in 2025, 1.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 23° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 47 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Winnebago weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Faribault County
- Wells Concrete Products CompanyPrecast concrete products manufacturing229
- United Hospital DistrictCritical access hospital175FTE
- USC ElementaryK-12 education160
- Blue Earth Area School DistrictSchool district157FTE
- United South Central SchoolsSchool district127FTE
- Brakebush WellsPoultry manufacturing123
- St Lukes Lutheran Care Center122
- City of Blue EarthExecutive offices, federal, state, and local89
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,602 people in all across the county; Delavan 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Delavan’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 Faribault County.
Delavan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Delavan$200,506
- 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 Delavan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Delavan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.