Gibbon, Minnesota.
Typical home $250,679 (+6.0% in a year). Mankato, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$593 (+82%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,189 +6%
- $236,491$250,679 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,764 +12%
- $223,916$250,679 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.
- Gibbon$1,316
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 31 years.
Typical home values in Gibbon, MN rose 6.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gibbon, Sibley County, Minnesota
Gibbon is a city of 784 people in Sibley County. Half its households earn more than $55,278 a year and half less, against $77,634 across Sibley County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Sibley County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gibbon is a small city in Sibley County, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Household incomes run well below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than a small-town setting might suggest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying below freezing, while July brings warm days.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities also common. Across Sibley County, some of the largest workplaces are Michael Foods, the County of Sibley and Sibley East School District. Unemployment across the county has risen over the past year, and the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier. Commutes are fairly long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Ward Lake is a short drive away and is the closest spot for time by the water. Fort Ridgely State Park, a protected area, and Flandrau State Park are both a longer drive away, and Fort Ridgely itself is a fort worth the trip for anyone interested in the region's history.
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- 372households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sibley County had 3,771 jobs in 2025, 2.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 21° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 63°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Gaylord weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sibley County
- Michael FoodsEgg production, chicken588
- County of SibleyLocal government176
- GFW SchoolsAcademies, elementary or secondary169
- Sibley East School DistrictSchool district132FTE
- GFW Public SchoolsSchool district116FTE
- City of WinthropCity and town managers' offices75
- Heartland corn ProductsDenatured alcohol manufacturing70
- Dairy Farmers of America63
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,598 people in all across the county; Gibbon has two 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gibbon’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 Sibley County and the Mankato, MN metro.
Gibbon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gibbon$250,679
- 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.
- Gibbon6
Zip codes with a Gibbon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gibbon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.