Mounds View, Minnesota.
Typical home $341,095 (+1.9% in a year), asking rent $1,338 . Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$868 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,352 +2%
- $334,742$341,095 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,564 +12%
- $304,531$341,095 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.
- Mounds View$1,790
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 31 years.
Typical home values in Mounds View, MN rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mounds View, Ramsey County, Minnesota
Mounds View is a city of 13,249 people in Ramsey County. Half its households earn more than $90,009 a year and half less, against $81,568 across Ramsey County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Ramsey County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mounds View is a city in Ramsey County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run above the county's. The population is middle-aged, and a good share of adults have a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers are pleasantly warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and the building trades also well represented. Medtronic, Sysco Foods and Multi-Tech Systems are among the largest workplaces in Mounds View itself. Commutes are of moderate length, and a notable number of people work from home.
Things to do. Target Field, a stadium, and Saint Anthony Falls, a waterfall, are both a short drive away. The Guthrie Theater, also a short drive away, is a theatre. For art, the Walker Art Center, a museum, is a longer drive away.
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- 5,379households
- 37%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ramsey County had 330,908 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 25° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 64°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Vadnais Lake weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mounds View
- MedtronicSurgical supplies manufacturing9,379
- Sysco FoodsGroceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers522
- Multi-Tech SystemsEngineering and manufacture of iot devices169
- Pinewood Elementary SchoolSchool districts, elementary or secondary124
- Edgewood Middle SchoolSchool districts, elementary or secondary114
- AAA Cooper TransportationTrucking, general freight, long-distance, less-than-truckload105
- Mounds View, MN-BiolifePlasmapheresis center103
- FedtechPlate work, fabricated metal, manufacturing101
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,834 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mounds View’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Ramsey County and the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
Mounds View home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mounds View$341,095
- Minnesota$348,778
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Mounds View 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.
- Mounds View26.04%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mounds View24
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mounds View12
Zip codes with a Mounds View address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mounds View — 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.