Starbuck, Minnesota.
Typical home $321,519 (+3.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$916 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,318 +3%
- $312,201$321,519 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,681 +22%
- $263,838$321,519 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.
- Starbuck$1,688
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Starbuck, MN rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Starbuck, Pope County, Minnesota
Starbuck is a city of 1,365 people in Pope County. Half its households earn more than $72,583 a year and half less, against $76,220 across Pope County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Starbuck is a small city in Pope County, Minnesota, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in many places. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn pleasantly warm in July, and precipitation through the year is moderate.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. The largest workplaces in Starbuck include Minnewaska Lutheran Home, DyCast Specialties and Glacial Hills Elementary Schools. The typical commute is a modest one, and some people work from home, though unemployment across the county has risen over the past year and jobs there have slipped slightly.
Things to do. Lake Minnewaska is a lake a short drive away, and Glacial Lakes State Park, a protected area, is also a short drive from town. For a longer outing, Lake Reno is a lake a longer drive away, and the Morris Wetland Management District, another protected area, lies a longer drive off as well.
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- 590households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 12%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, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Starbuck
- Minnewaska Lutheran HomeNursing homes57
- DyCast SpecialtiesAluminum die-casting foundries39
- Glacial Hills Elementary SchoolsSchool district22FTE
- Minnewaska Community Health ServicesAssisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 118 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
- 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 Starbuck’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.
Starbuck home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Starbuck$321,519
- 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.
- Starbuck14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Starbuck address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Starbuck — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.