Fountain, Minnesota.
Typical home $317,823 (+2.8% in a year). Rochester, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$922 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,648 +3%
- $309,175$317,823 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $78,467 +33%
- $239,356$317,823 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.
- Fountain$1,668
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Fountain, MN rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fountain, Fillmore County, Minnesota
Fountain is a city of 409 people in Fillmore County. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Fillmore County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fountain is a very small city in Fillmore County, in the hilly, wooded southeastern corner of Minnesota. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, and the share of adults with a four-year degree is lower than across much of the country. Winters are cold, with January highs staying well below freezing and a good deal of snow through the season, while July brings warm days and rain is steady through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with building trades, shops and farming also providing many jobs. Commutes tend to be fairly long, and a modest share of people work from home. Across Fillmore County, the largest workplaces include Semcac, a social service organization, along with Chosen Valley Care Center and Strongwell.
Things to do. Sugar Creek runs in or beside town, and Forestville/Mystery Cave State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. Also a short drive off is Preston Overlook, a tourist attraction. For a longer outing, Whitewater State Park is a longer drive away.
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- 207households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fillmore County had 6,170 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 4°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 58°. About 42 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Preston weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fillmore County
- SemcacSocial service advocacy organizations264
- Chosen Valley Care CenterSkilled nursing facilities183
- Good Shepherd Lutheran HomeNursing homes138
- StrongwellSeptic tanks, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing129
- ISDSchool districts, elementary or secondary111
- EZ FabricatingPlate work, fabricated metal, manufacturing106
- Spring Valley Living106
- Fillmore Central SchoolsSchool district104FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,913 people in all across the county; Fountain has one 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fountain’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 Fillmore County and the Rochester, MN metro.
Fountain home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fountain$317,823
- 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.
Zip codes with a Fountain address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fountain — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.