Glencoe, Minnesota.
Typical home $257,942 (+2.2% in a year). Hutchinson, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$729 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,581 +2%
- $252,362$257,942 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,395 +24%
- $207,547$257,942 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.
- Glencoe$1,354
- 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 Glencoe, MN rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Glencoe, McLeod County, Minnesota
Glencoe is a city of 5,744 people in McLeod County. Half its households earn more than $71,356 a year and half less, against $80,084 across McLeod County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in McLeod County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Glencoe is a small city in McLeod County, Minnesota, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the county's, and the typical home value is given beside this text. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and a good deal of snow falls each year. Summers are warm, with July the warmest month.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, the building trades, schools, hospitals and social care, and shops. Among the largest workplaces in Glencoe are Glencoe Regional Health, Seneca Foods, and the Glencoe-Silver Lake School District. Most people commute a fair distance to work, and few work from home.
Things to do. Several lakes are a short drive away, including Schilling Lake, Tiger Lake and Kings Lake, and Buffalo Creek, a river, is close by as well. A longer drive leads to the Crow River and to the biggest ball of twine, a well-known roadside tourist attraction.
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- 2,436households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. McLeod County had 15,822 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 21° and lows near 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 61°. About 50 inches of snow and 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brownton Wwtp weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Glencoe
- Glencoe Regional HealthGeneral medical and surgical hospitals608
- Seneca FoodsVegetable canning404
- Glencoe-silver Lake School DistrictSchool district191FTE
- McLeod CountyExecutive offices, federal, state, and local190
- Miller ManufacturingPoultry brooders, feeders, and waterers manufacturing144
- Coborn's Glencoe124
- GSL High SchoolK-12 education81
- McLeod CountySheriffs' offices80
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,083 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
- Strong windVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Glencoe’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 McLeod County and the Hutchinson, MN metro.
Glencoe home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Glencoe$257,942
- Minnesota$348,778
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Glencoe listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Glencoe17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Glencoe6
Zip codes with a Glencoe address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Glencoe — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.