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Lucan, Minnesota.

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What it costs per month · Lucan $1,831/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$893 (+95%) since Jan 2020.

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 Minnesota $1,831 United States $1,922
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  • Minnesota$1,831
  • United States$1,922

Living in Lucan, Redwood County, Minnesota

Lucan is a city of 214 people in Redwood County. Unemployment in Redwood County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Redwood County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.

People 214 in the 2020 census
Household income Too few homes in Lucan for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 4.6% Redwood County, August 2026; 3.7% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Lucan for the Census survey to measure.

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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lucan is a very small farming-country city in Redwood County, Minnesota, where residents know one another by sight and the pace is quiet. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January and a good deal of snow through the season, while July brings warm summer days. Rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.

Work. Residents of Lucan work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, farming and retail also common. Across Redwood County, some of the largest workplaces are Clayton, Carris Health-Redwood and the Redwood Area School District. The typical commute is fairly short, and few people work from home. Across Redwood County, unemployment has risen compared with a year earlier, and the number of jobs has slipped a little.

Things to do. For time outdoors, Lake Shetek State Park is a protected area built around a lake, a longer drive away. Upper Sioux Agency State Park is an archaeological site, also a longer drive away, and Plum Creek is a river within a longer drive as well. Camden State Park is another protected area for a day outside, likewise a longer drive from town.

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  • 100households
  • 18 mintypical commute
  • 6%work from home

What people in Redwood County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care24%
  • Manufacturing12%
  • Farming, forestry and mining11%
  • Shops (retail)10%
  • Building trades7%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment7%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Redwood County had 5,995 jobs in 2025, 1.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 23° and 5°; warmest in July, 82° and 61° 0° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 23° 5° F M A M J J 82° 61° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 23° and 5°; warmest in July, 82° and 61° 0° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 23° 5° F M A M J J 82° 61° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 23° and lows near 5°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 61°. About 46 inches of snow and 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lamberton Southwest Rsch & Outreach C weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Redwood County

  1. ClaytonManufactured home manufacturing264
  2. Independent School DistrictSchool districts, elementary or secondary228
  3. Carris Health-redwoodCritical access hospital184FTE
  4. Redwood Area School DistrictSchool district173FTE
  5. WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters169
  6. City of Redwood FallsGeneral public administration147
  7. HR ManagerBuildings, prefabricated, wood, manufacturing106
  8. Farmward CooperativeGrain elevators merchant wholesalers grain102

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 31 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,255 people in all across the county; Lucan 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

  1. Winter weatherVery high
  2. HailRelatively high
  3. Strong windRelatively high
  4. Cold wavesRelatively high
  5. Heat wavesRelatively high
  6. DroughtRelatively moderate

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

Lucan home values

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

Not enough data to draw this yet.

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 Lucan address

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

Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.