Mazeppa, Minnesota.
Typical home $386,915 (+7.9% in a year). Rochester, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,172 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $28,482 +8%
- $358,434$386,915 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $103,888 +37%
- $283,028$386,915 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.
- Mazeppa$2,031
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Mazeppa, MN rose 7.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mazeppa, Wabasha County, Minnesota
Mazeppa is a city of 874 people in Wabasha County. Half its households earn more than $92,061 a year and half less, against $82,007 across Wabasha County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Wabasha County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mazeppa is a small city in Wabasha County where most homes are lived in by their owners, a larger share than is typical across the country. Household incomes run above the county's, and the typical home is worth a good deal, so it is a settled, established kind of community. The people who live here are somewhat older than in many places, and winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month and July pleasantly warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, the building trades and other services. Across Wabasha County, some of the largest workplaces are Hearth & Home Technolgies, which makes fireplace inserts, Lakeside Foods Plainview, a fruit and vegetable canner, and St. Elizabeth Hospital of Wabasha. Jobs across the county slipped a little last year, and unemployment there is higher than it was a year earlier. Commutes are of middling length, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. A handful of rivers are a short drive away, including the North Fork Zumbro River and the Zumbro River, which suit quiet time along the water. A longer drive brings you to Lake Pepin, a large lake on the Mississippi, and to Frontenac State Park, a protected area for walking and looking out over the valley. Reads Landing Overlook, a tourist attraction, is also a longer drive.
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- 425households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wabasha County had 6,512 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer 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 81° and lows near 60°. About 44 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Zumbrota weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wabasha County
- Hearth & Home TechnolgiesFireplace inserts manufacturing410
- Lakeside Foods PlainviewCanning fruits and vegetables207
- St. Elizabeth Hosp. of WabashaCritical access hospital195FTE
- California OverlandMotor freight carrier, general, long-distance, truckload185
- Plainview-elgin-millville SchoolsSchool district158FTE
- Lake City Public School DistrictSchool district151FTE
- Wabasha-Kellogg School DistrictSchool district125FTE
- Ballymore CompanyHand trucks manufacturing105
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,779 people in all across the county; Mazeppa 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
- Strong windVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- HailVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mazeppa’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 Wabasha County and the Rochester, MN metro.
Mazeppa home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mazeppa$386,915
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mazeppa8
Zip codes with a Mazeppa address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mazeppa — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.