Northrop, Minnesota.
Typical home $149,737 (+2.2% in a year). Fairmont, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$463 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,243 +2%
- $146,494$149,737 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,541 +40%
- $107,197$149,737 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.
- Northrop$786
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Northrop, MN rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Northrop, Martin County, Minnesota
Northrop is a city of 223 people in Martin County. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Martin County was 4.3% 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 farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Northrop is a very small Minnesota city in Martin County, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and adults with a four-year degree are fewer than in many places. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest; rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in farming, forestry and mining, in manufacturing, and in other services. Across Martin County, some of the largest workplaces are Mayo Clinic Health System-Fairmont, the Fairmont Area School District and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is the same as it was a year earlier, and the county has gained a few more jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Martin Lake lies in or beside town, so water is close at hand. A short drive away are Hall Lake, another lake for fishing or a quiet afternoon, and the Fairmont Opera House, a theatre for an evening out. For a longer drive, the Blue Earth River offers a stretch of river to explore.
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- 101households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Martin County had 8,383 jobs in 2025, 1.7% 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 83° and lows near 64°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fairmont weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Martin County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters244
- Mayo Clinic Health System-fairmontGeneral hospital243FTE
- Fairmont Area School DistrictSchool district241FTE
- Devenish NutritionFeed additives merchant wholesalers170
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores167
- City of FairmontGeneral public administration159
- The County of MartinGeneral public administration134
- Martin County West School DistrictSchool district109FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 36 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,815 people in all across the county; Northrop has one 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Northrop’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 Martin County and the Fairmont, MN metro.
Northrop home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Northrop$149,737
- 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.
Zip codes with a Northrop address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Northrop — 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.