Le Sueur, Minnesota.
Typical home $303,687 (+2.1% in a year). Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$857 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,172 +2%
- $297,515$303,687 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,997 +22%
- $249,691$303,687 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 Sueur$1,594
- 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 Le Sueur, MN rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Le Sueur, Le Sueur County, Minnesota
Le Sueur is a city of 4,213 people in Le Sueur County. Half its households earn more than $78,711 a year and half less, against $94,968 across Le Sueur County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 Sueur is a small city on the Minnesota River valley's edge, with a median age a little younger than many towns its size and most homes lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the county's, and typical home values sit in the middle of the range. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, followed by schools, hospitals and social care, then shops and restaurants. The largest workplaces in Le Sueur include Cambria Plant, which makes countertops and stone, Agropur's cheese plant, and the Le Sueur-Henderson School District. Commutes are fairly short, and a small share of people work from home. Jobs across the county have slipped a little over the past year.
Things to do. The Rush River runs in or beside town, and the Ney Nature Center, a protected area, is a short drive away. High Island Creek, also a short drive off, is another place to walk or fish along the water. For a longer outing, Savidge Lake is a lake a longer drive away.
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- 1,821households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 9%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, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Le Sueur
- Cambria PlantCountertops, stone, manufacturing539
- Le SueurFoundries, die-casting, aluminum296
- Agropur Inc. - Le Sueur CheeseCheese, natural, manufacturing272
- LE Sueur-henderson School DistrictSchool district145FTE
- City of Le SueurCity and town managers' offices116
- Bimeda Le SueurVeterinary medicinal preparations manufacturing101
- Oak Terrace Senior Housing of Le SueurAssisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities73
- Agropur Inc. IngredientsPowdered milk manufacturing58
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,541 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 windVery high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Le Sueur’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 Sueur home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Le Sueur$303,687
- 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 3 Le Sueur 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.
- Le Sueur30.46%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Le Sueur30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Le Sueur8
Zip codes with a Le Sueur address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Le Sueur — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.