Mapleton, Minnesota.
Typical home $251,338 (+3.9% in a year). Mankato, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$732 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,470 +4%
- $241,868$251,338 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $59,461 +31%
- $191,878$251,338 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.
- Mapleton$1,319
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Mapleton, MN rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mapleton, Blue Earth County, Minnesota
Mapleton is a city of 1,710 people in Blue Earth County. Half its households earn more than $80,909 a year and half less, against $74,477 across Blue Earth County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Blue Earth County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mapleton is a small city in Blue Earth County where most homes are lived in by their owners. Residents are younger than in most of the country, and household incomes run above the county's, though a fair number of people live below the poverty line. Winters are long, cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days and the year is reasonably wet.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, the building trades, and transport, warehouses and utilities also employing a good share. Across Blue Earth County, some of the largest workplaces are Mchs - Southwest Minnesota Region, a general hospital, Minnesota State University-Mankato, and the Mankato Public School District. A four-year degree is held by a minority of adults, and the typical commute is a moderate one, with few people working from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Lura Lake and Bass Lake are lakes a short drive away. Minneopa State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away, as is Mount Kato, a ski area that suits the snowy winters.
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- 624households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Blue Earth County had 41,483 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 63°. About 46 inches of snow and 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Amboy weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Blue Earth County
- Mchs - Southwest Minnesota RegionGeneral hospital1,692FTE
- Minnesota State University-MankatoUniversity or college1,619
- MRCI Energy DriveVocational rehabilitation or habilitation services1,269
- Mankato Public School DistrictSchool district942FTE
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage552
- Rolls Royce Solutions America Inc. Power Drive MankatoMotor generator sets manufacturing474
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores432
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters386
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 122 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,761 people in all across the county; Mapleton has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mapleton’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 Blue Earth County and the Mankato, MN metro.
Mapleton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mapleton$251,338
- 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.
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.
- Mapleton13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mapleton4
Zip codes with a Mapleton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mapleton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.