Caledonia, Minnesota.
Typical home $289,919 (+4.4% in a year). La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$881 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,178 +4%
- $277,741$289,919 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $79,160 +38%
- $210,759$289,919 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.
- Caledonia$1,522
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Caledonia, MN rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Caledonia, Houston County, Minnesota
Caledonia is a city of 2,847 people in Houston County. Half its households earn more than $76,477 a year and half less, against $79,825 across Houston County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Houston County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Caledonia is a small city in Houston County, Minnesota, where residents tend to be older than in most of the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little below the county's. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is typical, and winters are cold and snowy, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year and warm summers.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in Caledonia are the Caledonia Public School District, Sno-pac Foods, which processes frozen fruit and vegetables, and Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, which makes athletic goods. Houston County has added jobs over the past year, and unemployment there is a little higher than it was a year ago.
Things to do. Beaver Creek Valley State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, and so is Badger Creek, a small river. A longer drive brings you to Great River Bluffs State Park, another protected area, and to the Root River, a river that makes a good day out.
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- 1,387households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Houston County had 5,129 jobs in 2025, 1.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 62°. About 45 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Caledonia weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Caledonia
- ElementaryK-12 education169
- Caledonia Public School DistrictSchool district125FTE
- Sno-pac FoodsFrozen fruit and vegetable processing40
- Rawlings Sporting Goods CompanyAthletic goods manufacturing37
- Steel & O'Brien - CaledoniaCouplings, hose, metal, manufacturing35
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 281 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
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Caledonia’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 Houston County and the La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN metro.
Caledonia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Caledonia$289,919
- Minnesota$348,778
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Caledonia 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Caledonia19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Caledonia6
Zip codes with a Caledonia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Caledonia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.