Blue Earth, Minnesota.
Typical home $181,377 (+3.2% in a year). Fairmont, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$518 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,555 +3%
- $175,823$181,377 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $45,221 +33%
- $136,157$181,377 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.
- Blue Earth$952
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Blue Earth, MN rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Blue Earth, Faribault County, Minnesota
Blue Earth is a city of 3,174 people in Faribault County. Half its households earn more than $66,771 a year and half less, against $66,815 across Faribault County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Faribault County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Blue Earth is a small city in Faribault County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes sit about level with the county's. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many larger places, and the drive to work is short.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and other services close behind. Among the largest workplaces in town are the United Hospital District, the Blue Earth Area School District and Seneca Foods, which cans fruits and vegetables. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Badger Creek and Coon Creek run in or beside town, and the Blue Earth River and Center Creek are a short drive away. For a longer outing, Bass Lake is a lake a longer drive away, and Union Slough National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area, also a longer drive away.
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- 1,294households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 13 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Faribault County had 4,468 jobs in 2025, 1.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 23° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 47 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Winnebago weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Blue Earth
- United Hospital DistrictCritical access hospital175FTE
- Blue Earth Area School DistrictSchool district157FTE
- St Lukes Lutheran Care Center122
- City of Blue EarthExecutive offices, federal, state, and local89
- Seneca FoodsCanning fruits and vegetables77
- TAFCO 22b35Special purpose highway vehicle bodies manufacturing64
- Winnebago Mfg CoMachine bases, metal, manufacturing43
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 711 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Blue Earth’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Faribault County and the Fairmont, MN metro.
Blue Earth home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Blue Earth$181,377
- 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.
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.
- Blue Earth16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Blue Earth address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Blue Earth — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.