Hackensack, Minnesota.
Typical home $382,823 (+3.2% in a year). Brainerd, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,184 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,725 +3%
- $371,098$382,823 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $96,663 +34%
- $286,160$382,823 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.
- Hackensack$2,009
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Hackensack, MN rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hackensack, Cass County, Minnesota
Hackensack is a city of 294 people in Cass County. Unemployment in Cass County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cass County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hackensack is a very small city in Cass County, Minnesota, in the north-central part of the state. Homes here are valued well above what incomes in the county would suggest, and winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month and summers that turn comfortably warm by July. Few adults hold a four-year degree compared with the country as a whole, and a small share work from home.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in the building trades. Across Cass County, the largest workplaces include Trident Seafoods, Cass County itself, and Madden's On Gull Lake. Unemployment across the county is higher than a year ago, and the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Water is the main draw nearby. Ten Mile Lake and Ponto Lake are lakes a short drive away, and the Shingobee River is also close by. Leech Lake, one of the best known lakes in the area, is a longer drive away.
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- 128households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 9%work from home
What people in Cass County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cass County had 10,595 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 19° and lows near 0°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 59°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Deep Portage weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cass County
- Trident SeafoodsSeafood and seafood products manufacturing340
- Cass CountyExecutive and legislative office combinations294
- Madden's On Gull LakeAutomobile courts, lodging278
- Cass Lake-bena Public SchoolsSchool district241FTE
- Cass Lake Indian HospitalCritical access hospital238FTE
- ElemK-12 education164
- DW Jones ManagementOther154
- Indian Health ServiceFederal government · Department of Health and Human Services154
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,396 people in all across the county; Hackensack has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hackensack’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Cass County and the Brainerd, MN metro.
Hackensack home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hackensack$382,823
- Minnesota$348,778
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Hackensack 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.
- Hackensack29.93%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hackensack30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hackensack7
Zip codes with a Hackensack address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hackensack — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.