Spicer, Minnesota.
Typical home $399,328 (+2.4% in a year). Willmar, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,129 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,423 +2%
- $389,905$399,328 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $76,101 +24%
- $323,227$399,328 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.
- Spicer$2,096
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Spicer, MN rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Spicer, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota
Spicer is a city of 1,112 people in Kandiyohi County. Half its households earn more than $77,969 a year and half less, against $76,592 across Kandiyohi County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% 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 people in Kandiyohi 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Spicer is a small city on the lakes of Kandiyohi County, home to a small community of residents. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values run high for a town this size. Household incomes sit a little above the county's, and a smaller share of people live below the poverty line than in many places. Winters are cold and snowy, with January highs near freezing's lower end and nights close to zero, while July brings warm days.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Across Kandiyohi County, the largest workplaces include Jennie-O Turkey Store, the Willmar Public School District and Carris Health. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home. Unemployment across the county is higher than it was a year ago, while the number of jobs has grown slightly.
Things to do. Water is the main draw here, with Woodcock Lake, Elkhorn Lake, Nest Lake and Green Lake all in or beside town. Sibley State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away for walking and time outdoors. For something different, the biggest ball of twine, a tourist attraction, is a longer drive away.
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- 551households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Kandiyohi County 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 82° and lows near 61°. About 50 inches of snow and 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New London weather station, 5 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; Spicer has one 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Spicer’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.
Spicer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Spicer$399,328
- Minnesota$348,778
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Spicer listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Spicer24.76%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Spicer40
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Spicer11
Zip codes with a Spicer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Spicer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.