Lowry, Minnesota.
Typical home $313,312 (+4.7% in a year). Alexandria, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$875 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,005 +5%
- $299,307$313,312 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,813 +23%
- $254,499$313,312 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.
- Lowry$1,644
- 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 Lowry, MN rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lowry, Pope County, Minnesota
Lowry is a city of 334 people in Pope County. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Pope County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lowry is a very small city in Pope County, Minnesota, where most homes are lived in by their owners. A small share of residents live below the poverty line, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in many places. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Pope County, the largest workplaces include FAST Global Solutions, which makes industrial truck and tractor machinery, Glacial Ridge Hospital, and the Minnewaska School District. The typical commute is a short one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Malmedal Lake is in or beside town, and Lake Reno and Lake Minnewaska are both a short drive away. For a longer drive, Glacial Lakes State Park is a protected area that offers more room to explore.
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- 140households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pope County had 4,400 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 23° and lows near 2°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 58°. About 46 inches of snow and 26 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Glenwood 2WNW weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pope County
- FAST Global SolutionsIndustrial truck, tractor, trailer, and stacker machinery manufacturing244
- Glacial Ridge HospitalCritical access hospital232FTE
- Minnewaska School DistrictSchool district218FTE
- Clyde MachinesTinfoil not made in rolling mills108
- Massman Automation, VillardPackaging machinery manufacturing64
- Minnewaska Lutheran HomeNursing homes57
- Palmer Bus Service of MinnewaskaSchool bus services53
- DyCast SpecialtiesAluminum die-casting foundries39
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,176 people in all across the county; Lowry has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lowry’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 Pope County and the Alexandria, MN metro.
Lowry home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lowry$313,312
- 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.
Zip codes with a Lowry address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lowry — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.