Hastings, Minnesota.
Typical home $381,268 (+3.0% in a year), asking rent $1,628 . Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$978 (+96%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,259 +3%
- $370,009$381,268 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,165 +15%
- $331,103$381,268 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.
- Hastings$2,001
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Hastings, MN rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hastings, Dakota County, Minnesota
Hastings is a city of 22,154 people in Dakota County. Half its households earn more than $93,998 a year and half less, against $106,318 across Dakota County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Dakota County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hastings is a city in Dakota County, Minnesota, beside the Saint Croix River. Residents tend to be somewhat older than in many towns, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and poverty is uncommon. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, while July is warm. The year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops also employing a good share. Among the largest workplaces in Hastings are the Hastings Public School District, Regina Hospital and Walmart. A fair number of residents work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one. Across Dakota County, unemployment is a little higher than a year earlier, and the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. The Saint Croix River runs in or beside town, and it is the nearest place to spend time outdoors. For a longer drive, the Minneapolis Institute of Art is a museum, and Saint Anthony Falls is a waterfall on the Mississippi. Fort Snelling is a historic fort, also a longer drive away.
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- 8,985households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dakota County had 189,166 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 63°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hastings Dam weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hastings
- Hastings Public School DistrictSchool district505FTE
- Regina Hospital United Hastings Regina381
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters340
- Augustana HCC Hastings (877)Skilled nursing facilities155
- City ofLocal government155
- MDVA HAStingsNursing homes151
- Quality One WoodworkKitchen cabinets, stock or custom wood, manufacturing134
- Ardent Mills HastingsFlour milling129
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,284 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 windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Hailrelatively high in parts of HastingsRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hastings’ 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 Dakota County and the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
Hastings home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hastings$381,268
- 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 Hastings listings, and the typical home goes pending in 27 days — 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.
- Hastings27.49%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Hastings27
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hastings101
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hastings39
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Hastings$347,550
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Hastings100.46%
Zip codes with a Hastings address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hastings — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.