Dunnell, Minnesota.
Typical home $336,297 (+12.3% in a year). Fairmont, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,109 (+169%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $36,892 +12%
- $299,405$336,297 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $117,886 +54%
- $218,412$336,297 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.
- Dunnell$1,765
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 8 years.
Typical home values in Dunnell, MN rose 12.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dunnell, Martin County, Minnesota
Dunnell is a city of 133 people in Martin County. Half its households earn more than $31,786 a year and half less, against $59,507 across Martin County; 1% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Martin County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Martin 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dunnell is a very small city in Martin County, Minnesota, with a population that is among the smallest of any city in the state. Household incomes are well below the county's, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and typical home values are high compared with local incomes. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over a typical year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and farming also well represented. Some people work from home, though most do not. Across Martin County, the largest workplaces include Walmart, Mayo Clinic Health System-Fairmont and the Fairmont Area School District. Unemployment across the county is the same as a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Fox Lake is a lake a short drive away, and it is the nearest of the waters listed for the area. A longer drive brings you to the Little Sioux River, and to Fort Defiance State Park, a protected area for walking and time outdoors. Lake Seymour is another lake a longer drive away.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
- 1%below the poverty line
- 6%work from home
What people in Martin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Martin County had 8,383 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 61°. About 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sherburn 3WSW weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Martin County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters244
- Mayo Clinic Health System-fairmontGeneral hospital243FTE
- Fairmont Area School DistrictSchool district241FTE
- Devenish NutritionFeed additives merchant wholesalers170
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores167
- City of FairmontGeneral public administration159
- The County of MartinGeneral public administration134
- Martin County West School DistrictSchool district109FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 36 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,815 people in all across the county; Dunnell 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
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dunnell’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 Martin County and the Fairmont, MN metro.
Dunnell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dunnell$336,297
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dunnell5
Zip codes with a Dunnell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dunnell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.