Dundas, Minnesota.
Typical home $391,655 (+1.6% in a year). Faribault-Northfield, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,079 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,291 +2%
- $385,364$391,655 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,457 +21%
- $323,198$391,655 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.
- Dundas$2,056
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Dundas, MN rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dundas, Rice County, Minnesota
Dundas is a city of 1,712 people in Rice County. Half its households earn more than $116,310 a year and half less, against $83,181 across Rice County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 97% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 3% are rented. Unemployment in Rice County was 4.9% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dundas is a small city in Rice County, Minnesota, and a young one in spirit, with residents who are somewhat younger than in much of the country. Almost everyone owns the home they live in, which gives the town a settled, long-term feel, and incomes run well above the county's, with very few households living in poverty. A good many adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold and snowy, with warm summers and a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and wholesale also common. The largest workplaces in Dundas include Menards, Mechanical Systems Inc Corporate, which does process piping installation, and College City Beverage, a wholesaler. The commute is a fairly typical one, and a noticeable share of people work from home.
Things to do. Several parks and waters lie a short drive away, including Union Lake and Crystal Lake, along with Nerstrand Big Woods State Park, a protected area of woodland. For a quieter outing, the Carleton College Cowling Arboretum, a botanical garden, is also a short drive from town.
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- 660households
- 43%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rice County had 26,450 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 5°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 61°. About 43 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Faribault weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dundas
- Menards"home centers"150
- Mechanical Systems Inc CorporateProcess piping installation103
- College City BeverageBeverages, alcoholic, merchant wholesalers96
- Aldi INC Minnesota22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 371 people in all. 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
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of DundasRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dundas’ 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 Rice County and the Faribault-Northfield, MN metro.
Dundas home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dundas$391,655
- 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.
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dundas11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Dundas4
Zip codes with a Dundas address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dundas — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.