Milan, Minnesota.
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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.
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
Living in Milan, Chippewa County, Minnesota
Milan is a city of 428 people in Chippewa County. Unemployment in Chippewa County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Chippewa 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Milan is a very small city in Chippewa County, Minnesota, and its people are young for the county and the country, with a median age well below what is typical elsewhere. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow, and summers turn properly warm by July. Rain and melted snow add up to a moderate yearly amount.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and farming also employing many. Across Chippewa County, some of the largest workplaces are Jennie-O Turkey Store, CCM Health and the Montevideo Public School District. The typical commute is a long one, and almost nobody works from home. Across the county, unemployment has risen over the past year and there are fewer jobs than there were, while household incomes there sit just above the typical American level.
Things to do. Arv Hus Museum is in or beside town. A short drive away, Lac qui Parle is a reservoir with Lac qui Parle State Park on its shores, a protected area for walking and being outdoors. Fort Renville, a historic fort site, is also a short drive away, and the Pomme de Terre River is nearby too.
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- 151households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 35 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Chippewa County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chippewa County had 5,136 jobs in 2025, 2.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 4°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 61°. About 51 inches of snow and 27 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Milan 1NW weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chippewa County
- Jennie-O Turkey StoreTurkeys, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked309
- CCM HealthCritical access hospital250FTE
- Montevideo Public School DistrictSchool district239FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters200
- American Surplus & MfgManufacturing building construction155
- Cavco Industries321991154
- MACCRAY School DistrictSchool district134FTE
- Chippewa CountyExecutive offices, federal, state, and local128
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,374 people in all across the county; Milan 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 windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Milan’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 Chippewa County.
Milan 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 Milan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Milan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.