Circle Pines, Minnesota.
Typical home $313,158 (+0.2% in a year). Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$777 (+90%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $643 +0%
- $312,514$313,158 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $27,146 +9%
- $286,012$313,158 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.
- Circle Pines$1,644
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 38 years.
Typical home values in Circle Pines, MN rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Circle Pines, Anoka County, Minnesota
Circle Pines is a city of 5,025 people in Anoka County. Half its households earn more than $101,800 a year and half less, against $101,869 across Anoka County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Anoka County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Circle Pines is a small city in Anoka County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and where far fewer households live below the poverty line than is common across the country. Incomes are close to the county's, and about as many adults hold a four-year degree as you would find in many suburban communities. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying below freezing, while July is warm. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, shops and manufacturing. Within the city itself, Northern Technologies HQ, Golden Lake Elementary and the City of Circle Pines are among the largest workplaces. The typical commute is a moderate one, and a good number of residents work from home.
Things to do. For a day out, the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Walker Art Center are among the best-known museums within reach, each a longer drive away. Sports fans can head to Target Field, a stadium that is also a longer drive from town. Saint Anthony Falls, a waterfall on the Mississippi River, makes another trip a longer drive away.
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- 2,042households
- 42%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 19%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Anoka County had 133,128 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 25° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 64°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Vadnais Lake weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Circle Pines
- Northern Technologies HQInhibitors manufacturing87
- Golden Lake ElementaryAcademies, elementary or secondary70
- City of Circle PinesCity and town managers' offices62
- Circle PinesMail and parcel delivery27
- CnrgHardware stores25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 271 people in all. 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Circle Pines’ 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 Anoka County and the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
Circle Pines home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Circle Pines$313,158
- 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 5 Circle Pines 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.
- Circle Pines19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Circle Pines9
Zip codes with a Circle Pines address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Circle Pines — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.