Wanamingo, Minnesota.
Typical home $303,078 (+2.8% in a year). Red Wing, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$772 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,211 +3%
- $294,867$303,078 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,132 +16%
- $260,946$303,078 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.
- Wanamingo$1,591
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Wanamingo, MN rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wanamingo, Goodhue County, Minnesota
Wanamingo is a city of 1,113 people in Goodhue County. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Goodhue County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wanamingo is a small city in Goodhue County, in the farm country of southeastern Minnesota. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and the population is on the younger side for a small town. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a good deal of snow, while summers are warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, transport and warehousing, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. In town, the largest workplaces include Mead Johnson & Company, which makes infant formula, the Kenyon-Wanamingo School District, and the City of Wanamingo. Most people drive to work, and a small group works from home.
Things to do. Milliken Creek is a river a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Lake Pepin, a large lake on the Mississippi, and to Rice Lake State Park, a protected area. Nerstrand Big Woods State Park, also a protected area a longer drive away, is another option for time outdoors.
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- 612households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Goodhue County had 21,796 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 23° and lows near 4°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 60°. About 44 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Zumbrota weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wanamingo
- mead johnson & companyInfant's formulas manufacturing200
- Kenyon-wanamingo School DistrictSchool district90FTE
- City of WanamingoCity and town managers' offices50
- Concast Wanamingo Lower PlantLintels, concrete, manufacturing38
- Midwest Machinery CoMilking machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 314 people in all. 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wanamingo’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Goodhue County and the Red Wing, MN metro.
Wanamingo home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wanamingo$303,078
- 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.
- Wanamingo6
Zip codes with a Wanamingo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wanamingo — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.