Afton, Minnesota.
Typical home $724,410 (+2.9% in a year). Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,976 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,153 +3%
- $704,258$724,410 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $100,738 +16%
- $623,672$724,410 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.
- Afton$3,802
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Afton, MN rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Afton, Washington County, Minnesota
Afton is a city of 2,955 people in Washington County. Half its households earn more than $133,305 a year and half less, against $115,345 across Washington County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 98% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 2% are rented. Unemployment in Washington County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Afton is a small city in Washington County, Minnesota, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Household incomes run well above the county's, and a larger share of adults hold a four-year degree than in many towns this size. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest; rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, manufacturing and shops. Across Washington County, some of the largest workplaces are Andersen, which makes windows and doors, South Washington County Schools, and MasTec Utility Services. A good number of residents work from home, and the typical commute is of moderate length.
Things to do. The Saint Croix River is the best known of the nearby places, a river reached by a longer drive. Also a longer drive away are the Minneapolis Institute of Art, a museum, and Minnesota State Capitol, which the list also counts among its museums. Fort Snelling, a historic fort, is another trip of the same kind.
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- 1,212households
- 59%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 28%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 96,635 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 63°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hastings Dam weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- MasTec Utility ServicesConstruction management, power and communication transmission line4,420
- AndersenFrames, door and window, wood, manufacturing3,689
- South Washington County SchoolsSchool district2,407FTE
- Renewal by AndersenWindows and window frames, plastics, manufacturing2,125
- Andersen WindowsWindows and window frames merchant wholesalers1,656
- ISDIndependent school district #8341,242
- FedExCourier and express delivery services1,058
- Stillwater Area Public SchoolsSchool district985FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 299 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 47,544 people in all across the county; Afton has none of its own. 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Afton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Washington County and the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
Afton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Afton$724,410
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Afton16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Afton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Afton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.