Long Prairie, Minnesota.
Typical home $254,547 (+6.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$766 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,699 +6%
- $239,848$254,547 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,590 +28%
- $198,957$254,547 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 Prairie$1,336
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Long Prairie, MN rose 6.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Long Prairie, Todd County, Minnesota
Long Prairie is a city of 3,661 people in Todd County. Half its households earn more than $58,786 a year and half less, against $67,662 across Todd County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Todd County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Long Prairie is a small city and the seat of Todd County, in central Minnesota. Incomes here run below the county's, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings the warmest days, comfortably mild rather than hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Among the largest workplaces in town are Dan's Prize, a processed meats manufacturer, the Long Prairie-Grey Eagle School District, and Long Prairie Memorial Hospital. Unemployment across Todd County is a little higher than a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Charlotte Lake sits in or beside town, and the Batcher Opera House Block, a theatre, is there too. A short drive away are lakes such as McCarrahan Lake and Latimer Lake, and the Little Swan River, which suit time on the water or along the banks. The Sauk River is a longer drive away.
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- 1,442households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Todd County had 7,119 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 18° and lows near -1°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 57°. About 54 inches of snow and 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Long Prairie weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Long Prairie
- Dan's Prize Inc. Long PrairieProcessed meats manufacturing250
- Long Prairie-Grey Eagle School DistSchool district162FTE
- Long Prairie Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital139FTE
- Enterprise CPDry pasta packaged with other ingredients made in dry pasta plants95
- Coborn's Long Prairie87
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 610 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 windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Long Prairie’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 Todd County.
Long Prairie home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Long Prairie$254,547
- Minnesota$348,778
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Long Prairie 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.
- Long Prairie26.19%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Long Prairie28
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Long Prairie8
Zip codes with a Long Prairie address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Long Prairie — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.