Litchfield, Minnesota.
Typical home $260,691 (+2.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$744 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,437 +3%
- $253,255$260,691 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,180 +23%
- $212,512$260,691 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.
- Litchfield$1,368
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Litchfield, MN rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Litchfield, Meeker County, Minnesota
Litchfield is a city of 6,624 people in Meeker County. Half its households earn more than $54,875 a year and half less, against $75,446 across Meeker County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in Meeker County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Litchfield is a small city in Meeker County, Minnesota, with a median age a little older than much of the country. Household incomes run well below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though renters make up a real part of the town, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing at best and lows around zero, while July is warm, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the biggest workplaces in town are Bobcat, which makes construction-type tractors and attachments, Walmart, and the Litchfield Public School District. Unemployment across the county has risen a little over the past year, and the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier. A typical commute is short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The Litchfield Opera House, a theatre in or beside town, is a good place for an evening out. Lake Ripley, also in or beside town, offers a place to be on the water, and Richardson Lake is a short drive away. Another short drive takes visitors to the biggest ball of twine, one of the better known roadside tourist attractions in the region.
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- 2,914households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Meeker County had 7,838 jobs in 2025, 2.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 20° and lows near 0°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 60°. About 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Litchfield weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Litchfield
- BobcatConstruction-type tractors and attachments manufacturing293
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters244
- Litchfield Public School DistrictSchool district217FTE
- Meeker County Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital187FTE
- Custom Products Of LitchfieldSkids, metal, manufacturing127
- Meeker County Justice CenterCounty supervisors' and executives' offices125
- Ripley Elem SchoolK-12 education122
- Trelleborg Sealing Solutions PlymouthGrommets, rubber, manufacturing111
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,480 people in all. 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Litchfield’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 Meeker County.
Litchfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Litchfield$260,691
- 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 Litchfield listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Litchfield33.11%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Litchfield46
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Litchfield14
Zip codes with a Litchfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Litchfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.