Emmons, Minnesota.
Typical home $186,182 (+6.3% in a year). Albert Lea, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$523 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,994 +6%
- $175,188$186,182 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,768 +25%
- $149,413$186,182 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.
- Emmons$977
- 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 Emmons, MN rose 6.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Emmons, Freeborn County, Minnesota
Emmons is a city of 367 people in Freeborn County. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Freeborn County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Emmons is a very small city in Freeborn County, Minnesota, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Homes cost less than in many parts of the country, and incomes in the county run below the national picture. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults here than in most places. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow, while July brings warm days and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Freeborn County, some of the largest workplaces are Cargill, which makes processed meats, the Albert LEA Public School District, and Walmart. Unemployment in the county has risen over the past year, and there are somewhat fewer jobs in the county than there were a year earlier. Most people have a fairly short drive to work, and only a small number work from home.
Things to do. Rice Lake State Park, a protected area, and Pickerel Lake are both a short drive away and suit time outdoors. Farther afield, a longer drive takes you to Pilot Knob State Park, another protected area, or to the Spam Museum, one of the better-known stops in the region.
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- 169households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Freeborn County had 11,723 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 22° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 40 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Albert Lea 3SE weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Freeborn County
- Albert LEAGeneral medical and surgical hospitals561
- Albert LEA Public School DistrictSchool district480FTE
- CargillProcessed meats manufacturing299
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters264
- St John's Lutheran CommunityNursing homes206
- Good Samaritan Society Albert LeaHomes for the elderly with nursing care194
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores193
- City of Albert LeaGeneral public administration184
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 47 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,172 people in all across the county; Emmons has none of its own. 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Emmons’ 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 Freeborn County and the Albert Lea, MN metro.
Emmons home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Emmons$186,182
- 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 Emmons address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Emmons — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.