A typical Waubun home is worth about $284,000
Up 5.7% in a year, 19% below the Minnesota typical home.
What kind of housing town is Waubun?
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What it takes to buy in Waubun
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That covers a typical Waubun home, with $57K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $970 a month here, $760 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Minnesota typical property tax (1.02% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
Up 27.9% in five years
Faster than Minnesota (14.1%).
Show as a table
| January | Waubun | Minnesota |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $167,000 | $217,000 |
| 2018 | $171,000 | $232,000 |
| 2019 | $173,000 | $246,000 |
| 2020 | $178,000 | $259,000 |
| 2021 | $206,000 | $282,000 |
| 2022 | $228,000 | $313,000 |
| 2023 | $253,000 | $325,000 |
| 2024 | $264,000 | $331,000 |
| 2025 | $269,000 | $341,000 |
| 2026 | $273,000 | $349,000 |
| August 2026 | $284,000 | $351,000 |
A typical Waubun home worth $166K in September 2016 is worth about $284K today.
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
A two-bedroom rents for about $970
Renters already here pay a median of $650, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Becker County, MN): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
No new homes permitted in 2025
No permits for new homes were issued in Waubun in 2025. The last year with any was 2007 (1 new home).
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $125,000 |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2005 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $50,000 |
| 2003 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $50,000 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
73% of Waubun households own their home
Half of Waubun’s homes were built before 1970.
Minnesota: 72% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
On the market in Waubun
Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.
Neighbors talk housing
What Waubun buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.