Isanti, Minnesota.
Typical home $333,301 (+2.0% in a year), asking rent $1,424 . Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$898 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,452 +2%
- $326,849$333,301 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,624 +15%
- $288,677$333,301 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.
- Isanti$1,749
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Isanti, MN rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Isanti, Isanti County, Minnesota
Isanti is a city of 6,804 people in Isanti County. Half its households earn more than $87,500 a year and half less, against $87,440 across Isanti County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Isanti County was 5.6% in August 2026, and the county had 4.6% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Isanti is a small city where residents are younger than in most of the country, and nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Incomes are close to the county's, and few households live below the poverty line. Winters are long and cold, with a good deal of snow, and summers are warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and the building trades also employing many. Some of the largest workplaces in Isanti are UPS, Coborn's Isanti and Isanti Intermediate. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and some people work from home. Jobs across Isanti County have fallen from a year earlier, and unemployment there is a little higher than it was.
Things to do. Several lakes lie a short drive away, including Skogman Lake and Big Pine Lake, which suit fishing and time on the water. A longer drive leads to Carlos Avery Wildlife Management Area, a large protected area for walking and watching wildlife. The Rum River, also a longer drive away, is a place for paddling and quiet time along the water.
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- 2,600households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Isanti County had 11,167 jobs in 2025, 4.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 22° and lows near 4°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 61°. About 44 inches of snow and 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cambridge weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Isanti
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services122
- Coborn's Isanti102
- Isanti IntermediateElementary schools80
- Isanti Middle SchoolMiddle schools76
- Prairie Senior Cottages LLC IsantiAssisted living54
- Advanced Telemetry SystemsSonar systems and equipment manufacturing48
- Art and Science AcademySchool district40FTE
- Allina Health Isanti Clinic32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 565 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
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Isanti’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 Isanti County and the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
Isanti home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Isanti$333,301
- 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 Isanti 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.
- Isanti25.62%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Isanti55
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Isanti20
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Isanti$338,433
- United States$371,553
Zip codes with a Isanti address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Isanti — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.