Hancock, Minnesota.
Typical home $208,643 (+4.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$487 (+80%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,859 +4%
- $199,784$208,643 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,340 +13%
- $185,304$208,643 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.
- Hancock$1,095
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 29 years.
Typical home values in Hancock, MN rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hancock, Pope County, Minnesota
Hancock is a city of 863 people in Pope County. Half its households earn more than $70,481 a year and half less, against $76,220 across Pope County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Pope County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hancock is a small city in Pope County, Minnesota, where most homes are lived in by their owners and neighbors are likely to know one another. Household incomes in town run a little below the county's, and the typical home is modestly priced. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and winters are long and cold, with plenty of snow and a January that rarely warms much above freezing, while July is pleasantly warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, farming and transport also employing many. Across Pope County, some of the largest workplaces are Glacial Ridge Hospital, Minnewaska School District and FAST Global Solutions, a maker of industrial machinery. Jobs across the county slipped a little last year, and unemployment there has risen compared with a year ago.
Things to do. Page Lake sits in or beside town, a handy spot for time on the water. A short drive away are the Morris Wetland Management District, a protected area of wetlands and prairie, and Outlet Creek. For a longer outing, Glacial Lakes State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 323households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pope County had 4,400 jobs in 2025, 1.3% 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 81° and lows near 60°. About 45 inches of snow and 27 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Morris West Cntrl Rsch & Outreach weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pope County
- FAST Global SolutionsIndustrial truck, tractor, trailer, and stacker machinery manufacturing244
- Glacial Ridge HospitalCritical access hospital232FTE
- Minnewaska School DistrictSchool district218FTE
- Clyde MachinesTinfoil not made in rolling mills108
- Massman Automation, VillardPackaging machinery manufacturing64
- Minnewaska Lutheran HomeNursing homes57
- Palmer Bus Service of MinnewaskaSchool bus services53
- DyCast SpecialtiesAluminum die-casting foundries39
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,176 people in all across the county; Hancock 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hancock’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 Pope County.
Hancock home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hancock$208,643
- 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 Hancock address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hancock — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.