Avon, Minnesota.
Typical home $377,167 (+2.7% in a year). St. Cloud, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,093 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,792 +3%
- $367,374$377,167 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $81,437 +28%
- $295,729$377,167 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.
- Avon$1,980
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Avon, MN rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Avon, Stearns County, Minnesota
Avon is a city of 1,618 people in Stearns County. Half its households earn more than $91,563 a year and half less, against $77,066 across Stearns County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Stearns County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Avon is a small city in Stearns County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and a typical household earns more than the county's median. Residents are somewhat younger than in much of the country, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults. Winters are long, cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm days, and the year's moisture comes as a fair mix of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Workplaces in Avon include Lumber One, which does construction management and single-family building, and The Barrel Mill, a maker of wooden containers. Most people commute a moderate distance to work, and some work from home.
Things to do. Saint John's Arboretum, a botanical garden, lies in or beside town. A short drive away are the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library and the South Two River, and Munsinger Gardens and Clemens Gardens, another botanical garden, are a longer drive off.
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- 612households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Stearns County had 87,420 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 4°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 61°. About 57 inches of snow and 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Collegeville St. John's weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Avon
- Novae170
- City of AvonGovernment base facilities operation support services52
- Lumber OneConstruction management, single-family building32
- The Barrel MillContainers, wood, manufacturing26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 280 people in all. 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
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Avon’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 Stearns County and the St. Cloud, MN metro.
Avon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Avon$377,167
- Minnesota$348,778
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Avon listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Avon17.97%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Avon21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Avon8
Zip codes with a Avon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Avon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.