Elysian, Minnesota.
Typical home $419,798 (+1.9% in a year). Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,181 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,008 +2%
- $411,790$419,798 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $81,279 +24%
- $338,519$419,798 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.
- Elysian$2,203
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Elysian, MN rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Elysian, Le Sueur County, Minnesota
Elysian is a city of 708 people in Le Sueur County. Half its households earn more than $89,632 a year and half less, against $94,968 across Le Sueur County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Le Sueur County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Elysian is a small city on the lakes of Le Sueur County, Minnesota, with a population smaller than many neighborhoods elsewhere. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values here are high for a place this size. Household incomes sit a little below the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are cold, with January highs only just under freezing and lows near zero, and a good deal of snow falls each year. Summers are warm, and July is the warmest month.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Across Le Sueur County, some of the largest workplaces are Cambria, which makes countertops and stone, Seneca Foods, and the Tri-city United School District. The typical commute is fairly long, and few people work from home. Unemployment across the county has risen a little over the past year, and the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. Water is the main draw around Elysian. Toners Lake and Duck Lake are lakes a short drive away, and the Little Cannon River is a short drive away too. For a longer outing, the Le Sueur River is a longer drive away, and the same goes for Wita Lake.
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- 293households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Le Sueur County had 8,456 jobs in 2025, 2.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 22° and lows near 5°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 61°. About 52 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Waseca South Rsch & Outreach Ctr weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Le Sueur County
- Cambria PlantCountertops, stone, manufacturing539
- Le SueurFoundries, die-casting, aluminum296
- Seneca FoodsJuices, fruit or vegetable, fresh, manufacturing287
- Agropur Inc. - Le Sueur CheeseCheese, natural, manufacturing272
- Tri-city United School DistrictSchool district257FTE
- Le Sueur CountyExecutive offices, federal, state, and local246
- Dessert Holdings, LLC- Le Center FacilityDesserts, frozen bakery, manufacturing211
- Mayo Clinic Health SYS - New PragueCritical access hospital201FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 33 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,623 people in all across the county; Elysian has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Strong windVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Elysian’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Le Sueur County and the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
Elysian home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Elysian$419,798
- 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.
- Elysian14
Zip codes with a Elysian address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Elysian — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.