Byron, Minnesota.
Typical home $402,703 (+3.7% in a year). Rochester, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,067 (+102%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,215 +4%
- $388,488$402,703 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,414 +18%
- $342,289$402,703 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.
- Byron$2,114
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Byron, MN rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Byron, Olmsted County, Minnesota
Byron is a city of 6,312 people in Olmsted County. Half its households earn more than $124,010 a year and half less, against $95,406 across Olmsted County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Olmsted County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Byron is a small city in Olmsted County, close enough to Rochester that many residents treat the places as one local area. Households here earn more than the county's typical household, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days, and rain and melting snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with retail, restaurants and hotels, and the building trades also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in Byron are the Byron Public School District, GrandPad and Fareway Stores. Commutes are short, and a fair number of people work from home. Unemployment across Olmsted County is a little higher than it was a year ago, while the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. For a day out, Oxbow Park and Zollman Zoo is a short drive away, and the Chateau Theatre and the Rochester Art Center are also a short drive from town. Silver Lake is another short drive for time by the water. For a longer outing, Rice Lake State Park and Carley State Park are a longer drive away and offer open country to walk through.
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- 2,381households
- 48%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 20%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Olmsted County had 105,239 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 23° and lows near 4°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 58°. About 44 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Byron 4north weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Byron
- Byron Public School DistrictSchool district233FTE
- Taylor Print and Visual Impressions - Byron143
- GrandPadConsumer-type electronic stores116
- Fareway Stores, Inc. 208 ByronGrocery stores83
- Jennie-O Turkey StoreTurkey egg production82
- Community EdK-12 education55
- Ornua Ingredients North America - ByonProcessed cheeses manufacturing51
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 681 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Byron’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 Olmsted County and the Rochester, MN metro.
Byron home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Byron$402,703
- 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 4 Byron 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.
- Byron25.20%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Byron61
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Byron15
Zip codes with a Byron address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Byron — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.