States · Minnesota · Morrison County

Hillman, Minnesota.

Typical home $369,038 (+4.7% in a year).

What it costs per month · Hillman $1,937/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,175 (+154%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $16,639 +5%
$352,399$369,038 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $104,593 +40%
$264,445$369,038 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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Hillman $1,937 Minnesota $1,831 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Hillman$1,937
  • Minnesota$1,831
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.

Typical home values in Hillman, MN rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.

Living in Hillman, Morrison County, Minnesota

Hillman is a city of 23 people in Morrison County. Unemployment in Morrison County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Morrison County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.

People 23 in the 2020 census
Household income Too few homes in Hillman for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 5.3% Morrison County, August 2026; 4.8% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Hillman for the Census survey to measure.

Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hillman is a small city in Morrison County, Minnesota, where people tend to know one another. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm. Rain and melted snow fall through much of the year.

Work. Many people in Hillman work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing. Others work in shops or in the building trades.

Things to do. Mille Lacs Lake, one of the best known nearby places, is a longer drive away. Mille Lacs Kathio State Park, an archaeological site, is also a longer drive away. Hillman Creek, a river, is a short drive away.

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What people in Morrison County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care23%
  • Manufacturing14%
  • Shops (retail)11%
  • Building trades9%
  • Professional and business services8%
  • Transport, warehouses and utilities6%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Morrison County had 11,202 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 20° and 0°; warmest in July, 80° and 59° 0° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 20° 0° F M A M J J 80° 59° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 20° and 0°; warmest in July, 80° and 59° 0° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 20° 0° F M A M J J 80° 59° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 20° and lows near 0°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 59°. About 49 inches of snow and 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Milaca weather station, 21 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Morrison County

  1. WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters359
  2. Little Falls Community SchoolsSchool district329FTE
  3. Northern Pines Mental Health CenterMental health centers and clinics, outpatient276
  4. High School EmployeesHigh schools246
  5. St. Gabriels HospitalCritical access hospital242FTE
  6. Independent School DistrictElementary and secondary schools200
  7. Barrett Petfood Innovations Little FallsAnimal feeds, prepared, dog and cat, manufacturing185
  8. LakeshirtsPrinting, screen181

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 44 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,779 people in all across the county; Hillman has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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

  1. LightningVery high
  2. HailRelatively high
  3. Inland floodingRelatively high
  4. Strong windRelatively high
  5. DroughtRelatively moderate
  6. WildfireRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hillman’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 Morrison County.

Hillman home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 Hillman $369,038 Minnesota $348,778 United States $366,157
$200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2018 2022 2026
  • Hillman$369,038
  • Minnesota$348,778
  • United States$366,157
Property tax, 2026 roll $2,212/yr median bill inside Hillman, effective 0.73% of estimated value — current assessment rolls, AssessorSearch Data Lab, quality-gated against the county's official figures

Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.

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.

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falling flat warming hot overheating runaway

Market heat, inside the city limits

Homes for sale

Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.

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Zip codes with a Hillman address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hillman — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.

Zip codes in Hillman