Plummer, Minnesota.
Typical home $228,201 (+7.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$536 (+81%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,155 +7%
- $213,047$228,201 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $12,905 +6%
- $215,296$228,201 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.
- Plummer$1,198
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 60 years.
Typical home values in Plummer, MN rose 7.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Plummer, Red Lake County, Minnesota
Plummer is a city of 276 people in Red Lake County. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Red Lake County was 6.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Red Lake 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Plummer is a very small city in Red Lake County, Minnesota, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and fewer households fall below the poverty line than many people might expect for a town this size. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month, and snow falls often. Summers are warm in July without turning hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing and wholesale. Across Red Lake County, some of the largest workplaces are Red Lake County Cooperative, a farm supplies wholesaler, and the Red Lake Falls Public School District. Unemployment in the county has edged up over the past year, and the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. Lost River and Hill River are both a short drive away and make easy outings for anyone who likes to be near moving water. Farther out, Rydell National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area a longer drive away, suited to a day of watching birds and wildlife. Union Lake is also a longer drive away, for a day by the water.
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- 153households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 8%work from home
What people in Red Lake County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Red Lake County had 958 jobs in 2025, 2.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 15° and lows near -3°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 58°. About 50 inches of snow and 24 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Red Lake Falls weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Red Lake County
- Red Lake County CooperativeFarm supplies merchant wholesalers88
- Red Lake Falls Public School DistSchool district74FTE
- Red Lake County Central Public SCHSchool district70FTE
- Redwood Family Care NetworkResidential intellectual and development62
- Central Boiler, Inc.-Red lake FallsFurnaces, heating, manufacturing46
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 196 people in all across the county; Plummer has none of its own. School districts come 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Plummer’s census tracts, 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 Red Lake County.
Plummer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Plummer$228,201
- 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 Plummer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Plummer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.