Adrian, Minnesota.
Typical home $255,838 (+7.0% in a year). Worthington, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$774 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,644 +7%
- $239,194$255,838 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,803 +25%
- $204,034$255,838 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.
- Adrian$1,343
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Adrian, MN rose 7.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Adrian, Nobles County, Minnesota
Adrian is a city of 1,194 people in Nobles County. Half its households earn more than $73,438 a year and half less, against $66,101 across Nobles County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Nobles County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Adrian is a small city in Nobles County, in the southwestern corner of Minnesota. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, and household incomes run higher than across the county as a whole. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, farming and shops also employing many. Across Nobles County, some of the largest workplaces are Swift Pork Company Worthington, the Worthington Public School District and Bedford Industries. Commutes are typical for a small town, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Blue Mounds State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Split Rock Creek State Park is another one. Corabelle Lake is a lake that is also a longer drive from town. The Hinkly House Museum, also a longer drive away, offers an indoor outing.
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- 498households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Nobles County had 9,959 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 23° and lows near 5°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 61°. About 45 inches of snow and 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Worthington Nne weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Nobles County
- Swift Pork Company WorthingtonBoxed meats produced in slaughtering plants2,282
- Worthington Public School DistrictSchool district621FTE
- Bedford IndustriesPackaging, plastics, manufacturing369
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters285
- Sanford Regional Hospital WorthingtoGeneral hospital256FTE
- Smith TruckingGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload225
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores154
- Prairie ElementaryK-12 education153
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 45 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,929 people in all across the county; Adrian has two of its own. 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
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Adrian’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 Nobles County and the Worthington, MN metro.
Adrian home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Adrian$255,838
- 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 Adrian address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Adrian — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.