Raymond, Minnesota.
Typical home $242,621 (+3.2% in a year). Willmar, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$688 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,449 +3%
- $235,172$242,621 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,340 +22%
- $198,281$242,621 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.
- Raymond$1,273
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Raymond, MN rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Raymond, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota
Raymond is a city of 782 people in Kandiyohi County. Half its households earn more than $64,563 a year and half less, against $76,592 across Kandiyohi County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Raymond is a small city in Kandiyohi County, home to a small community of residents. Incomes here run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than you might expect, though most homes are lived in by their owners. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow through the season, while July brings warm days and the year is moderately wet.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport and warehousing close behind. Across Kandiyohi County, the largest workplaces include Jennie-O Turkey Store, the Willmar Public School District and Carris Health. The typical commute is about as long as in many small towns, and few people work from home. Unemployment across the county has risen over the past year, while the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Water and parkland are the main draws nearby. Sibley State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Monson Lake State Park, another protected area, is a similar distance. The Chippewa River, also a longer drive away, offers a quieter stretch of river to visit.
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- 311households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 5%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 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 46 inches of snow and 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Willmar Wwtp weather station, 12 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; Raymond 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 windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Raymond’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 Kandiyohi County and the Willmar, MN metro.
Raymond home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Raymond$242,621
- 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.
- Raymond6
Zip codes with a Raymond address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Raymond — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.