Medina, Minnesota.
Typical home $840,236 (+1.5% in a year). Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,219 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,595 +2%
- $827,641$840,236 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $120,636 +17%
- $719,600$840,236 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.
- Medina$4,410
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Medina, MN rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Medina, Hennepin County, Minnesota
Medina is a city of 6,837 people in Hennepin County. Half its households earn more than $230,859 a year and half less, against $97,653 across Hennepin County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Hennepin County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Medina is a city in Hennepin County, west of Minneapolis, and a very large share of its homes are lived in by their owners, well above the county as a whole. Household incomes run far higher than across the county, and a large majority of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow, while July brings warm days and the year carries a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops. Some of the largest workplaces in Medina are Loram Maintenance of Way, which does railway maintenance and rolling stock manufacturing, along with Target and Tolomatic. Many residents work from home, and across Hennepin County unemployment has risen a little over the past year.
Things to do. Lake Minnetonka is a short drive away and is the nearest place to spend a day on the water. For museums, the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Walker Art Center are both a longer drive away, as is Saint Anthony Falls, a waterfall on the Mississippi.
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- 2,335households
- 67%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 42%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hennepin County had 919,062 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 63°. About 54 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New Hope weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Medina
- Loram Maintenance of Way (Fleet Operations)Maintenance of rights-of-way and structures, railway691
- Loram Maintenance of Way Inc (3800 and 3900)Railroad rolling stock manufacturing365
- TargetDiscount department stores287
- TolomaticActuators, fluid power, manufacturing245
- Graphic Packaging InternationalPaper and paperboard159
- Intercomp CompanyScales, including laboratory-type, manufacturing85
- Max-Tech and Maxxon79
- My PathHabilitation job counseling and training, vocational70
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,044 people in all. 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
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Medina’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 Hennepin County and the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
Medina home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Medina$840,236
- Minnesota$348,778
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Medina listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Medina32.70%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Medina45
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Medina9
Zip codes with a Medina address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Medina — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.