Evansville, Minnesota.
Typical home $270,051 (+5.9% in a year). Alexandria, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$775 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,981 +6%
- $255,070$270,051 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,290 +29%
- $209,761$270,051 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.
- Evansville$1,417
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Evansville, MN rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Evansville, Douglas County, Minnesota
Evansville is a city of 603 people in Douglas County. Half its households earn more than $64,028 a year and half less, against $79,043 across Douglas County. Unemployment in Douglas County was 4.0% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Evansville is a very small city in Douglas County, Minnesota, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Household incomes run below the county's, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than you might find in many places. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and nights well below freezing, while July brings warm summer days, and the year's precipitation arrives as a mix of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents of Evansville work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and shops also employing many. Across Douglas County, some of the largest workplaces are Alomere Health, a general hospital, Douglas Machine, which makes bag filling and closing machines, and the Alexandria Public School District. Unemployment in the county has risen a little over the past year, while the number of jobs there has edged up. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Lakes are the draw here. Erwin Lake, Lake Sina and Horseshoe Lake are in or beside town, so the water is close at hand. Lake Aaron is a short drive away, and Lake Louise is a longer drive for a change of scene.
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- 243households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 29 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Douglas County had 19,728 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 19° and lows near 2°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 61°. About 24 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Alexandria Municipal Airport weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Douglas County
- Alomere HealthGeneral hospital723FTE
- Douglas MachineBag opening, filling, and closing machines manufacturing715
- The Aagard GroupFood packaging machinery manufacturing687
- Alexandria Public School DistrictSchool district682FTE
- 3M Company380
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters369
- Central SpecialtiesRoad construction355
- Douglas CountyLegislative bodies338
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 72 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,682 people in all across the county; Evansville has two 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Evansville’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 Douglas County and the Alexandria, MN metro.
Evansville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Evansville$270,051
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Evansville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Evansville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Evansville
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 56315 | Brandon | 1,803 | — | $302,831 |
| 56326 | Evansville | 1,716 | — | $266,496 |