Crystal, Minnesota.
Typical home $315,531 (+0.9% in a year), asking rent $1,385 . Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$770 (+87%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,736 +1%
- $312,795$315,531 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,738 +10%
- $286,793$315,531 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.
- Crystal$1,656
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 36 years.
Typical home values in Crystal, MN rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Crystal, Hennepin County, Minnesota
Crystal is a city of 23,330 people in Hennepin County. Half its households earn more than $92,513 a year and half less, against $97,653 across Hennepin County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Hennepin County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Crystal is a city in Hennepin County, just outside Minneapolis, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run a little below the county's, and the people who live here are on the younger side for a place where so many own their homes. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, manufacturing and shops also employing a good share. Some of the largest workplaces in Crystal are Target, the City of Crystal and Unfi. A fair number of people work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one. Unemployment across Hennepin County has risen a little over the past year, and the number of jobs there has barely changed.
Things to do. Some of the region's best known places are a short drive away. The Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Walker Art Center are both museums close by, and Target Field, where baseball is played, is a short drive too. For some time outdoors, Bde Maka Ska is a lake a short drive away.
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- 9,218households
- 37%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 21%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hennepin County had 919,062 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mpls Crystal Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Crystal
- TargetDiscount department stores220
- City of CrystalAuditor's offices, government136
- UnfiGrocery113
- Beacon AcademySchool district81FTE
- Independent Packing ServicesCrating goods for shipping57
- Heathers ManorAssisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities54
- Almsted's Fresh MarketGrocery stores50
- Prescription Landscape - Crystal OfficeLawn care services42
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 827 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 moderate
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of CrystalRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of CrystalRelatively 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 Crystal’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 Hennepin County and the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
Crystal home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Crystal$315,531
- Minnesota$348,778
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Crystal listings, and the typical home goes pending in 19 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Crystal32.54%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Crystal19
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Crystal75
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Crystal30
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Crystal$323,882
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Crystal101.91%
Zip codes with a Crystal address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Crystal — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.