Walker, Minnesota.
Typical home $361,184 (+2.6% in a year). Brainerd, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,083 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,137 +3%
- $352,047$361,184 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $77,159 +27%
- $284,024$361,184 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.
- Walker$1,896
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Walker, MN rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Walker, Cass County, Minnesota
Walker is a city of 966 people in Cass County. 46% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 54% are rented. Unemployment in Cass County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cass 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Walker is a small city in Cass County, Minnesota, and one of the smaller places you will find on a map of the state. The people who live here are considerably older than in most of the country, and fewer homes are lived in by their owners than across much of the state. Typical home values are high for a town this size, and a larger share of residents live in poverty than is usual. Winters are cold, with January highs well below freezing and lows near zero. Summers are warm without being hot, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and the building trades. Some of the largest workplaces in Walker are Edgewood May Creek, an assisted-living facility with on-site nursing, Stille Havn Hus, a residential mental health facility, and the Forest Service. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many towns, and very few work from home. Across Cass County, unemployment has risen compared with a year ago, and the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Lake May is in or beside town, so the water is an easy walk or ride away. A short drive takes you to Ten Mile Lake and to the Shingobee River, a river good for a quiet afternoon. For a longer outing, Leech Lake and the Chippewa National Forest are a longer drive away, and both are among the better known places in the area.
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- 419households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 2%work from home
What people in Cass County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cass County had 10,595 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 19° and lows near 1°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 59°. About 28 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Walker weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Walker
- Edgewood May CreekAssisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities37
- Stille Havn HusMental health facilities, residential35
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 72 people in all. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026). 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Walker’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 Cass County and the Brainerd, MN metro.
Walker home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Walker$361,184
- Minnesota$348,778
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Walker listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Walker18.55%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Walker45
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Walker9
Zip codes with a Walker address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Walker — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.