Clinton, Minnesota.
Typical home $247,689 (+17.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$599 (+85%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $36,517 +17%
- $211,173$247,689 since Sep 2025
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.
- Clinton$1,300
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Clinton, MN rose 17.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Clinton, Big Stone County, Minnesota
Clinton is a city of 386 people in Big Stone County. Unemployment in Big Stone County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Big Stone County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Clinton is a very small city in western Minnesota, in Big Stone County, where nearly everyone is likely to know one another by sight. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places. Winters are long and cold, with a good deal of snow, and summers turn warm in July.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by farming, shops and manufacturing. Across Big Stone County, the largest workplaces include Ortonville Area Health Services, Ortonville Public Schools and Bituminous Paving. Unemployment across the county is higher than it was a year earlier, though the county has added jobs over the past year, and the typical commute is short.
Things to do. Big Stone Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away, as is Big Stone Lake State Park, a protected area. The Minnesota River and Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge lie a longer drive away, and suit a day trip for anyone who enjoys water and open country.
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- 18%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
What people in Big Stone County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Big Stone County had 1,742 jobs in 2025, 2.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 23° and lows near 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 43 inches of snow and 26 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Artichoke Lake East weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Big Stone County
- Ortonville Area Health ServicesCritical access hospital135FTE
- Ortonville Area Health ServiceSkilled nursing facilities100
- Essentia HealthHomes for the elderly with nursing care96
- Ortonville Public SchoolsSchool district94FTE
- Big Stone CountyGeneral public administration81
- Bituminous PavingRoad construction73
- Clinton-graceville-beardsley SchoolsSchool district55FTE
- Hasseln ConstructionGeneral construction45
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 728 people in all across the county; Clinton has none of its own. 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Clinton’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 Big Stone County.
Clinton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Clinton$247,689
- Minnesota$348,778
- United States$366,157
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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Clinton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Clinton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.