Sunburg, Minnesota.
Typical home $351,222 (+8.0% in a year). Willmar, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,052 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $25,925 +8%
- $325,297$351,222 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $97,892 +39%
- $253,330$351,222 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.
- Sunburg$1,843
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Sunburg, MN rose 8.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sunburg, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota
Sunburg is a city of 94 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 people in Kandiyohi County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sunburg is a very small city in Kandiyohi County, in west-central Minnesota, where most people know one another. Its town figures are among the smallest on this site, so daily life here is quiet and close. Winters are long and cold, while summers are warm and green, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing, retail shops, and professional and business services. Fewer adults hold a university degree than in most of the country, and many people make their living close to home in the trades and services that keep a small town running. Commutes tend to be longer than in big cities, and fewer people work from home than in many places.
Things to do. Monson Lake State Park is a protected area in or beside town, a good place for walks and time outdoors in every season. Hefta Lake lies in or beside town as well, and Sibley State Park, a protected area a longer drive away, offers more room to explore. Lakes are plentiful around Sunburg, so a short outing on the water is never far off.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
- 30 mintypical commute
- 5%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 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, 14 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; Sunburg 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 Sunburg’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.
Sunburg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sunburg$351,222
- 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 Sunburg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sunburg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Sunburg
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 56271 | Murdock | 1,334 | — | $292,440 |
| 56289 | Sunburg | 599 | — | $356,097 |