Marcell, Minnesota.
Typical home $267,518 (-1.2% in a year). Grand Rapids, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$711 (+102%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,156 -1%
- $270,674$267,518 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,244 +10%
- $242,274$267,518 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.
- Marcell$1,404
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 35 years.
Typical home values in Marcell, MN fell 1.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Marcell, Itasca County, Minnesota
Marcell is a township of 474 people in Itasca County. Half its households earn more than $65,500 a year and half less, against $68,603 across Itasca County. Unemployment in Itasca County was 6.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Itasca 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Marcell is a small township in Itasca County, home to a very small population spread across forest and lake country. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a typical home is worth a good deal more than many people expect for a place this size. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month and a great deal of snow, while summers are pleasantly warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Itasca County, some of the largest workplaces are Grand Itasca Clinic and Hospital, the Grand Rapids Public School District and UPM - Blandin Paper. Unemployment across the county is higher than a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than the year before. A typical commute is fairly long, which suits a town set well apart from larger centers.
Things to do. Big Dick Lake sits in or beside town, and the Turtle River, Gunn Lake and the Marcell Experimental Forest are all a short drive away. Big Fork State Forest is also close by, offering woodland to walk and explore. For a longer outing, Scenic State Park and Lake Winnibigoshish, a large reservoir, are a longer drive away.
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- 27 mintypical commute
What people in Itasca County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Itasca County had 16,444 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 16° and lows near -5°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 56°. About 64 inches of snow and 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marcell 5NE weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Itasca County
- Grand Itasca Clinic and HospitalGeneral hospital566FTE
- Grand Rapids Public School DistrictSchool district513FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters317
- UPM - Blandin PaperGroundwood paper, coated, made in paper mills216
- TargetDiscount department stores215
- Itasca CountyCounty supervisors' and executives' offices204
- Progressive CareAssisted living199
- Department of Natural ResourcesConservation and reclamation agencies178
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 66 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,941 people in all across the county; Marcell 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Itasca County, 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 Itasca County and the Grand Rapids, MN metro.
Marcell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marcell$267,518
- 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 Marcell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marcell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.