Greenfield, Minnesota.
Typical home $595,152 (+4.0% in a year). Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,676 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,765 +4%
- $572,386$595,152 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $111,264 +23%
- $483,888$595,152 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.
- Greenfield$3,124
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Greenfield, MN rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Greenfield, Hennepin County, Minnesota
Greenfield is a city of 2,903 people in Hennepin County. Half its households earn more than $153,750 a year and half less, against $97,653 across Hennepin County; 1% of its people live below the poverty line. 98% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 2% are rented. Unemployment in Hennepin County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more 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 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Greenfield is a small city in Hennepin County where nearly every home is lived in by its owners, and the median age is in the middle years rather than young. Household incomes run well above the county's, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Homes here are valued far higher than in most American towns, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, the building trades, and professional and business services. The commute is a long one by most standards, and a fair number of people work from home. Across Hennepin County, some of the largest workplaces are the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Hennepin County itself, and Target.
Things to do. The Crow River is a short drive away and is the nearest water. A longer drive brings you to Lake Minnetonka, one of the best known lakes in the area. Farther in toward the city, the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Art are both museums worth a day's outing.
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- 1,028households
- 54%of adults have a degree
- 1%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hennepin County had 919,062 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 23° and lows near 4°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Delano weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hennepin County
- University of Minnesota-Twin CitiesUniversity or college19,735
- Hennepin CountyGeneral government9,367
- TargetDiscount department stores8,437
- Delta Air Lines - MSPScheduled air transportation6,332
- Boston ScientificCatheters manufacturing5,837
- University of Minnesota Medical CTRGeneral hospital5,810FTE
- Hennepin County Medical CenterGeneral hospital5,644FTE
- Target Northern CampusDiscount department stores5,280
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2,069 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 394,099 people in all across the county; Greenfield has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (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
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Greenfield’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Hennepin County and the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
Greenfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Greenfield$595,152
- Minnesota$348,778
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Greenfield 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.
- Greenfield30.95%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Greenfield23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Greenfield7
Zip codes with a Greenfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Greenfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.