Halstad, Minnesota.
Typical home $177,000 (+2.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$491 (+112%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $4,994 +3%
- $172,007$177,000 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,769 +22%
- $145,231$177,000 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.
- Halstad$929
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Halstad, MN rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Halstad, Norman County, Minnesota
Halstad is a city of 564 people in Norman County. Half its households earn more than $66,250 a year and half less, against $72,260 across Norman County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Norman County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 9.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Halstad is a very small city in Norman County, in the flat farm country of northwest Minnesota. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical resident is somewhat older than in many places. Incomes run a little below the county's, and few people live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mainly in professional and business services, the building trades, farming and manufacturing. Few adults have a four-year degree, and most commutes are long, so many people drive some distance to work, with only a few working from home. Across Norman County, the largest workplaces include Ada-Borup-West Public Schools, Benedictine Care Community and Bridges Medical Center.
Things to do. The Wild Rice River runs in or beside town, making it the nearest spot for time by the water. A short drive away are the Goose River and the Marsh River. The Sand Hill River and the Buffalo River lie a longer drive away, for those willing to go further.
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- 194households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Norman County had 1,874 jobs in 2025, 9.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 18° and lows near 1°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 61°. About 22 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hillsboro North weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Norman County
- Ada-Borup-West Public SchoolsSchool district106FTE
- Benedictine Care CommunitySkilled nursing facilities85
- WaukonDairy cattle farming53
- Triple Crown NutritionAnimal feed mills manufacturing51
- Norman County East School DistrictSchool district43FTE
- Bridges Medical CenterCritical access hospital33FTE
- Red River Valley Cooperative Power AssociationDistribution of electric power22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 341 people in all across the county; Halstad has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Halstad’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 Norman County.
Halstad home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Halstad$177,000
- 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.
- Halstad5
Zip codes with a Halstad address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Halstad — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.