Springfield, Minnesota.
Typical home $211,688 (+8.4% in a year). New Ulm, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$659 (+146%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,480 +8%
- $195,209$211,688 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $66,449 +46%
- $145,240$211,688 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.
- Springfield$1,111
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Springfield, MN rose 8.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Springfield, Brown County, Minnesota
Springfield is a city of 2,027 people in Brown County. Half its households earn more than $59,434 a year and half less, against $69,378 across Brown County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Brown County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Springfield is a small city in Brown County, Minnesota, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and farming also providing jobs. Some of the largest workplaces in Springfield are St John Lutheran Home, Sanborn Mfg., division of MAT Industries, and Springfield Public School District. A typical commute is fairly short, and a small group of residents work from home.
Things to do. Altermatt Lake and Dry Creek are both a short drive away for time near the water. For a longer outing, Fort Ridgely is a historic fort a longer drive away, and Flandrau State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive from town.
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- 892households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Brown County had 13,328 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 23° and lows near 4°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 42 inches of snow and 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Springfield Northwest weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Springfield
- St John Lutheran HomeRetirement communities, continuing care132
- Sanborn Mfg., division of MAT IndustriesAir compressors manufacturing110
- Springfield Public School DistrictSchool district86FTE
- Allina Health Springfield Clinic21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 373 people in all. School districts come 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Springfield’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Brown County and the New Ulm, MN metro.
Springfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Springfield$211,688
- 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.
- Springfield8
Zip codes with a Springfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Springfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Springfield
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 56087 | Springfield | 3,105 | — | $211,810 |
| 56083 | Sanborn | 741 | — | $209,868 |