Hewitt, Minnesota.
Typical home $218,345 (+5.2% in a year). Fergus Falls, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$554 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,851 +5%
- $207,494$218,345 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,090 +20%
- $182,255$218,345 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.
- Hewitt$1,146
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Hewitt, MN rose 5.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hewitt, Todd County, Minnesota
Hewitt is a city of 251 people in Todd County. Half its households earn more than $63,750 a year and half less, against $67,662 across Todd County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Todd County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Todd 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hewitt is a very small city in Todd County, Minnesota, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are long, cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings the warmest days, and the year is fairly wet once rain and melted snow are counted together.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and farming, forestry and mining also providing jobs. Across Todd County, the largest workplaces include Lakewood Health System, Dan's Prize, a processed meats maker, and the Long Prairie-Grey Eagle School District. A typical commute is moderate in length, and very few people work from home. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, though the number of jobs there has edged up.
Things to do. The countryside around Hewitt is a draw for people who like water. Lake Carlos State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and the Redeye River and the Leaf River are both rivers within a longer drive. Dower Lake is another lake in the area for those willing to travel a bit further.
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- 111households
- 6%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Todd County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Todd County had 7,119 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 18° and lows near -2°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 58°. About 51 inches of snow and 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wadena South weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Todd County
- Lakewood Health SystemCritical access hospital479FTE
- Lakewood Health SystemNursing care facilities283
- Dan's Prize Inc. BrowervilleProcessed meats manufacturing250
- Dan's Prize Inc. Long PrairieProcessed meats manufacturing250
- Long Prairie-Grey Eagle School DistSchool district162FTE
- Staples-motley School DistrictSchool district156FTE
- Long Prairie Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital139FTE
- Central Bi-Products - Long PrairieAnimal fats rendering126
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,246 people in all across the county; Hewitt 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hewitt’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 Todd County and the Fergus Falls, MN metro.
Hewitt home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hewitt$218,345
- 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 Hewitt address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hewitt — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.