Pennock, Minnesota.
Typical home $300,239 (+2.6% in a year). Willmar, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$815 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,684 +3%
- $292,555$300,239 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,911 +21%
- $247,328$300,239 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.
- Pennock$1,576
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Pennock, MN rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pennock, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota
Pennock is a city of 479 people in Kandiyohi County. Unemployment in Kandiyohi County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pennock is a very small city in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, with a young population compared with most of the country. Not many adults have a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying below freezing, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Kandiyohi County, some of the largest workplaces are Jennie-O Turkey Store, Willmar Public School District and Carris Health. Commutes are fairly short, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Skataas Lake and Solomon Lake are both a short drive away, and Foot Lake is close by too, which makes the area easy for anyone who likes to spend time by the water. Sibley State Park is a longer drive, a protected area with room to walk and look around. Bill Taunton Stadium is also a short drive from town.
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- 217households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kandiyohi County had 23,281 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 20° and lows near 1°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 61°. About 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Willmar 5N weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kandiyohi County
- Jennie-O Turkey StoreTurkeys, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked1,131
- Willmar Public School DistrictSchool district684FTE
- Carris HealthGeneral hospital619FTE
- DuininckPavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction613
- BethesdaNursing homes485
- Jennie-O Turkey StoreTurkey production484
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters381
- CentraCare Willmar ClinicOther ambulatory health care services321
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 101 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,536 people in all across the county; Pennock 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
- Strong windVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pennock’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 Kandiyohi County and the Willmar, MN metro.
Pennock home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pennock$300,239
- 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 Pennock address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pennock — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.