Barrett, Minnesota.
Typical home $277,603 (+7.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$812 (+126%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $19,252 +7%
- $258,351$277,603 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,636 +29%
- $214,967$277,603 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.
- Barrett$1,457
- 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 Barrett, MN rose 7.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Barrett, Grant County, Minnesota
Barrett is a city of 366 people in Grant County. Unemployment in Grant County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Barrett is a very small city in Grant County, Minnesota, where winters are cold and snowy and summers are warm. January is the coldest month, with daytime highs well below freezing and nights near zero, and July is the warmest. Snowfall is heavy through the cold season, and the town gets a fair amount of moisture across the year. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than is typical across the country, and the typical home is valued at a moderate level for a place its size.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, the building trades, and farming, forestry and mining. Across Grant County, the largest workplaces include West Central Area Schools, Lake Region Healthcare Corporation-Elbow Lake and TFC Poultry. Unemployment across the county has risen a little over the past year, and the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Lakes are the main draw around Barrett. Cormorant Lake and Long Lake are in or beside town, so the water is close at hand for anyone who likes to fish, boat or simply sit by the shore. Turtle Lake is a short drive away, and Lake Aaron is a longer drive for a day out.
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- 154households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grant County had 1,904 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 19° and lows near 0°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 60°. About 45 inches of snow and 27 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Morris West Cntrl Rsch & Outreach weather station, 22 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grant County
- West Central Area SchoolsSchool district132FTE
- Lake Region Healthcare Corporation-Elbow LakeGeneral medical and surgical hospitals109
- TFC PoultryPoultry processing94
- Prairie Ridge HospitalCritical access hospital80FTE
- Barrett Care CenterSkilled nursing facilities79
- North OttawaDairy cattle farming60
- Ashby Public School DistrictSchool district59FTE
- Herman-norcross School DistrictSchool district26FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 567 people in all across the county; Barrett 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Barrett’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 Grant County.
Barrett home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Barrett$277,603
- 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 Barrett address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Barrett — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Barrett
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 56339 | Hoffman | 1,115 | — | $250,242 |
| 56311 | Barrett | 666 | — | $268,141 |