Adams, Minnesota.
Typical home $250,518 (+4.6% in a year). Austin, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$779 (+145%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,023 +5%
- $239,495$250,518 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,277 +37%
- $183,240$250,518 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.
- Adams$1,315
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Adams, MN rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Adams, Mower County, Minnesota
Adams is a city of 683 people in Mower County. Half its households earn more than $93,594 a year and half less, against $73,074 across Mower County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Mower County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mower 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Adams is a small city in Mower County, Minnesota, where nearly everyone knows one another. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run well above the county's, with fewer people living below the poverty line than you might expect. The population is older than in many places, and winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month and summers that turn pleasantly warm by July.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also common. The largest workplaces in Adams include the Southland Public School District, Colony Court Adams Senior Living and the City of Adams. A good number of people travel some distance to their jobs, and only a small share work from home.
Things to do. Lake Louise State Park is a protected area a short drive away, a handy spot for a walk or a day outdoors. Farther afield, the Spam Museum is one of the best known museums in the region, and Forestville/Mystery Cave State Park is another protected area, both a longer drive away.
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- 309households
- 6%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Mower County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mower County had 16,974 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 21° and lows near 5°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 59°. About 51 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Grand Meadow weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Adams
- Southland Public School DistrictSchool district62FTE
- Colony Court Adams Senior LivingAssisted living36
- City of AdamsFirefighting, government and volunteer25
- Adams Area Ambulance ServiceAmbulance services, air or ground22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 83 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Adams’ 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 Mower County and the Austin, MN metro.
Adams home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Adams$250,518
- 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 Adams address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Adams — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.