Ada, Minnesota.
Typical home $182,192 (+7.8% in a year). Grand Forks, ND-MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$522 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,246 +8%
- $168,946$182,192 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,579 +33%
- $136,612$182,192 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.
- Ada$956
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Ada, MN rose 7.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ada, Norman County, Minnesota
Ada is a city of 1,740 people in Norman County. Half its households earn more than $64,091 a year and half less, against $72,260 across Norman County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Norman County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 9.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ada is a small city in Norman County, in the flat farm country of northwestern Minnesota. Winters are very cold, with January the coldest month and lows that fall below zero, while summers are pleasantly warm, with July the warmest. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical home value is moderate. Household incomes run below the county's, and the median age sits close to that of the country as a whole.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and others work in the building trades, in shops, and in farming. Among the largest workplaces in Ada are Ada-Borup-West Public Schools, Bridges Medical Center and Triple Crown Nutrition. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home. Across Norman County, there were more jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. The outdoors is the main draw nearby. Glacial Ridge National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area a longer drive away, and the Wild Rice River and the Sand Hill River are both a longer drive away as well. Union Lake is another longer drive for those who want to be on the water.
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- 766households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Norman County had 1,874 jobs in 2025, 9.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 16° and lows near -4°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 57°. About 25 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ada weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ada
- Ada-Borup-West Public SchoolsSchool district106FTE
- Benedictine Care CommunitySkilled nursing facilities85
- Triple Crown NutritionAnimal feed mills manufacturing51
- Bridges Medical CenterCritical access hospital33FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 189 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ada’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 Norman County and the Grand Forks, ND-MN metro.
Ada home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ada$182,192
- Minnesota$348,778
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Ada12
Zip codes with a Ada address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ada — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.