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The median home value in Detroit Lakes, MN is $381,363 as of 2026-07-31, up 3.14% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$381,363
Year-over-Year
+3.14%
Population
9,969
Detroit Lakes ranks #43 of 112 Minnesota cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 7.1% above the state's city median of $355,920. It sits in Becker County, where the county-wide median is $366,411.
Median household income in Detroit Lakes is $62,958, so the typical home value is about 6.1× annual household income. This is a simple price-to-income benchmark rather than a monthly payment estimate; it does not account for mortgage rates, down payments, taxes or insurance.
Household income comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates, table B19013 (how the affordability measure works).
Detroit Lakes police recorded a violent crime rate of 170 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 1,545 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Detroit Lakes, that value is $381,363. That's up 3.14% from a year earlier. It is about 7.1% above the typical Minnesota city tracked here.
Homes in Detroit Lakes are more expensive than Becker County as a whole, where the median is $366,411 — a difference of about 4.1%.
Median household income here is $62,958, so the typical home value is about 6.1× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Detroit Lakes police reported 170 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 9,969. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.
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