Le Center, Minnesota.
Typical home $325,588 (+3.3% in a year). Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$945 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,353 +3%
- $315,235$325,588 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $65,934 +25%
- $259,654$325,588 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.
- Le Center$1,709
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Le Center, MN rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Le Center, Le Sueur County, Minnesota
Le Center is a city of 2,517 people in Le Sueur County. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. 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 residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Le Center is a small city and the seat of Le Sueur County, in the farm country of south-central Minnesota. Its residents are younger than in many small towns, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades and in shops. Among the largest workplaces in town are Dessert Holdings, a frozen bakery and dessert plant, Maud Borup, a candy wholesaler, and the county government offices. Commutes are fairly short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Tyler Lake lies in or beside town, and Lake Henry, Dog Lake and Savidge Lake are each a short drive away. For a river, the Little Cannon River is a short drive off, while the Le Sueur River is a longer trip.
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- 949households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents 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, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Le Center
- Le Sueur CountyExecutive offices, federal, state, and local246
- Dessert Holdings, LLC- Le Center FacilityDesserts, frozen bakery, manufacturing211
- Maud Borup Inc Le CenterCandy merchant wholesalers165
- Le Center KK-12 education72
- European RoasterieRoasting coffee54
- City of Le CenterTreasurers' offices, government35
- Ameri-Kleen - Minnesota BranchBuilding cleaning services, janitorial24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 807 people in all. 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
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Le Center’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 Le Sueur County and the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
Le Center home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Le Center$325,588
- 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.
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.
- Le Center12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Le Center4
Zip codes with a Le Center address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Le Center — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.