Willernie, Minnesota.
Typical home $291,019 (+3.6% in a year). Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$679 (+80%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,994 +4%
- $281,025$291,019 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $16,054 +6%
- $274,965$291,019 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.
- Willernie$1,527
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 61 years.
Typical home values in Willernie, MN rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Willernie, Washington County, Minnesota
Willernie is a city of 515 people in Washington County. Half its households earn more than $85,531 a year and half less, against $115,345 across Washington County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Washington County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Washington 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Willernie is a very small city in Washington County, one of the smaller places in the area. Household incomes here run below the county's, and the typical home is priced modestly for the area. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and temperatures well below freezing, while July is pleasantly warm, and precipitation arrives as a mix of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops. Across Washington County, some of the largest workplaces are Andersen, the window and door maker, and South Washington County Schools. The typical commute is a moderate one, and the county's unemployment rate has risen a little compared with a year ago, while its job count has grown slightly.
Things to do. The Minnesota State Capitol, a short drive away, is a museum and landmark open to visitors. A longer drive brings you to the Saint Croix River, a good setting for time on the water, and to the Minneapolis Institute of Art, one of the region's best known museums. Together they offer a mix of civic history, river scenery and art.
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- 6%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
What people in Washington County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 96,635 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 22° and lows near 5°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 62°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Stillwater 2SW weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- MasTec Utility ServicesConstruction management, power and communication transmission line4,420
- AndersenFrames, door and window, wood, manufacturing3,689
- South Washington County SchoolsSchool district2,407FTE
- Renewal by AndersenWindows and window frames, plastics, manufacturing2,125
- Andersen WindowsWindows and window frames merchant wholesalers1,656
- ISDIndependent school district #8341,242
- FedExCourier and express delivery services1,058
- Stillwater Area Public SchoolsSchool district985FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 299 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 47,544 people in all across the county; Willernie has none of its own. 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 windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Willernie’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 Washington County and the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
Willernie home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Willernie$291,019
- 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 Willernie address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Willernie — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.