Kasota, Minnesota.
Typical home $352,510 (+2.3% in a year). Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$911 (+97%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,054 +2%
- $344,456$352,510 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,523 +16%
- $302,987$352,510 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.
- Kasota$1,850
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Kasota, MN rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kasota, Le Sueur County, Minnesota
Kasota is a city of 714 people in Le Sueur County. Half its households earn more than $66,625 a year and half less, against $94,968 across Le Sueur County. Unemployment in Le Sueur County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Le Sueur County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kasota is a very small city on the Minnesota River in Le Sueur County, with a population smaller than most towns of its kind. Residents are somewhat older than the typical American, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Household incomes run below the county's, while the typical home is worth a good deal, so owning here is a larger commitment than incomes alone might suggest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a good deal of snow, and summers are warm, with July the warmest, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, the building trades and shops. The drive to work is a bit longer than a quick trip across town, and few people work from home. Across Le Sueur County, the largest workplaces include Cambria Plant, Seneca Foods and the Tri-city United School District. Joblessness in the county has risen over the past year, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Lake Emily and the Linnaeus Arboretum are in or beside town, a lake for time on the water and a botanical garden for a quiet walk. Wita Lake is a short drive away for more lake time. Minneopa State Park, a protected natural area, is a longer drive away and makes a good day out.
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- 241households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 24 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Le Sueur County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Le Sueur County had 8,456 jobs in 2025, 2.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 22° and lows near 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 61°. About 38 inches of snow and 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the St. Peter weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Le Sueur County
- Cambria PlantCountertops, stone, manufacturing539
- Le SueurFoundries, die-casting, aluminum296
- Seneca FoodsJuices, fruit or vegetable, fresh, manufacturing287
- Agropur Inc. - Le Sueur CheeseCheese, natural, manufacturing272
- Tri-city United School DistrictSchool district257FTE
- Le Sueur CountyExecutive offices, federal, state, and local246
- Dessert Holdings, LLC- Le Center FacilityDesserts, frozen bakery, manufacturing211
- Mayo Clinic Health SYS - New PragueCritical access hospital201FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 33 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,623 people in all across the county; Kasota has none 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- 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 Kasota’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 Le Sueur County and the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
Kasota home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kasota$352,510
- 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.
- Kasota10
Zip codes with a Kasota address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kasota — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.