Newport, Minnesota.
Typical home $340,072 (+2.2% in a year), asking rent $1,320 . Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$873 (+96%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,332 +2%
- $332,740$340,072 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,979 +14%
- $298,092$340,072 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.
- Newport$1,785
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Newport, MN rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Newport, Washington County, Minnesota
Newport is a city of 3,797 people in Washington County. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Washington County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Newport is a small city in Washington County, Minnesota, with a population that skews neither especially young nor especially old. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though there are more renters than you would find in many nearby towns. Winters are cold and snowy, and summers are warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, professional and business services, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Some of the largest workplaces in Newport are Bailey Nurseries, Xcel Energy and Americold Logistics. Commutes are a typical length for the area, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, Allianz Field is a stadium for soccer, and the Minnesota State Capitol is a museum of state government and history. Fort Snelling, also a short drive off, is a historic fort. For a longer outing, the Saint Croix River is a river for walking its banks and watching the water.
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- 2,160households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 96,635 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 64°. About 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the St. Paul Downtown Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Newport
- Bailey NurseriesNursery stock growing417
- Xcel EnergyElectric power distribution96
- Americold Logistics, LLC: NewportRefrigerated warehousing59
- Daley ElectricElectrical, electrical wiring, and low voltage electrical work50
- The Vollrath Company LLC., NewportPots and pans, fabricated metal, manufacturing49
- City of NewportCity and town managers' offices37
- AmerectIron work, structural, contractors36
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 744 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Newport’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Washington County and the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
Newport home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Newport$340,072
- 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.
- Newport6
Zip codes with a Newport address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Newport — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.