Long Lake, Minnesota.
Typical home $439,587 (+1.6% in a year), asking rent $2,445 . Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,069 (+86%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,092 +2%
- $432,495$439,587 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,304 +10%
- $399,283$439,587 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.
- Long Lake$2,307
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 36 years.
Typical home values in Long Lake, MN rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Long Lake, Hennepin County, Minnesota
Long Lake is a city of 1,741 people in Hennepin County. Half its households earn more than $109,063 a year and half less, against $97,653 across Hennepin County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Hennepin County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Long Lake is a small city on the western side of Hennepin County, with a population that skews a little older than many places and most homes lived in by their owners. Household incomes run higher than across the county, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree. Typical home values and rents are on the higher side, so living here costs more than in many Minnesota towns. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings pleasantly warm days, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mainly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in banks, insurance and property, and in manufacturing. Some of the larger workplaces in Long Lake itself are Lund Food Holdings, a supermarket company, Waterfront Restoration, and Mint Roofing. Many people commute to jobs elsewhere in the area, and a good number work from home. Unemployment across Hennepin County has risen a little over the past year, and the number of jobs there has barely changed.
Things to do. Lake Minnetonka is a short drive away, and it is the natural choice for time on the water. For museums, the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Walker Art Center are both a longer drive away. Target Field, the ballpark, is also a longer drive away.
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- 683households
- 56%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 22%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hennepin County had 919,062 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 22° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 62°. About 55 inches of snow and 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chanhassen Wsfo weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Long Lake
- Lund Food HoldingsSupermarkets130
- Waterfront RestorationBeach maintenance and cleaning services63
- Mint RoofingRoof membrane installation55
- city of long lakeCity and town managers' offices48
- Milow ElectricElectrical contractors31
- UniFirstIndustrial launderer26
- Long Lake Assisted LivingAssisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities23
- Walgreen Co.Pharmacies and drug stores23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 399 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Long Lake’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Hennepin County and the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
Long Lake home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Long Lake$439,587
- 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.
- Long Lake5
Zip codes with a Long Lake address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Long Lake — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.