Becker, Minnesota.
Typical home $381,084 (+2.2% in a year), asking rent $1,750 . Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,013 (+103%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,254 +2%
- $372,830$381,084 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,722 +15%
- $331,362$381,084 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.
- Becker$2,000
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Becker, MN rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Becker, Sherburne County, Minnesota
Becker is a city of 4,877 people in Sherburne County. Half its households earn more than $86,094 a year and half less, against $105,466 across Sherburne County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Sherburne County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Becker is a small city in Sherburne County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the population is younger than in many towns. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values and rents sit in the middle of the range for the area. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are pleasantly warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, restaurants and hotels, and manufacturing. The biggest workplaces in Becker include the Becker Public School District, Xcel Energy and the City of Becker. Most people travel some distance to their jobs, and a modest share work from home.
Things to do. Lake Maria State Park is a protected area a short drive away, good for time outdoors in any season. The St. Francis River is also a short drive away, and Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area a longer drive off.
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- 1,805households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sherburne County had 28,584 jobs in 2025, 1.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 22° and lows near 4°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 59°. About 49 inches of snow and 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Santiago East weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Becker
- Becker Public School DistrictSchool district364FTE
- Xcel EnergyFossil fuel electric power generation242
- City of BeckerCity and town councils222
- High SchoolSchool districts, elementary or secondary220
- Liberty PaperPaperboard manufacturing157
- Primary SchoolSchool districts, elementary or secondary130
- Manufacturing PartnersMachine shops99
- Intermediate SchoolSchool districts, elementary or secondary73
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,312 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of BeckerRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of BeckerRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Becker’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 Sherburne County and the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
Becker home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Becker$381,084
- Minnesota$348,778
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Becker 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.
- Becker31.16%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Becker45
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Becker17
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Becker address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Becker — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.