Oronoco, Minnesota.
Typical home $566,514 (+4.4% in a year). Rochester, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,589 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $23,696 +4%
- $542,818$566,514 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $111,105 +24%
- $455,410$566,514 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.
- Oronoco$2,973
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Oronoco, MN rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Oronoco, Olmsted County, Minnesota
Oronoco is a city of 1,802 people in Olmsted County. Half its households earn more than $157,500 a year and half less, against $95,406 across Olmsted County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 98% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 2% are rented. Unemployment in Olmsted County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oronoco is a small city in Olmsted County where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Households here earn well above the county's typical income, very few people live below the poverty line, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree. Homes cost considerably more than in most American towns, and winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month and July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. Across Olmsted County, the largest workplaces include Mayo Clinic Hospital Rochester and the Rochester Public School District. A typical commute is a moderate one, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, Oxbow Park and Zollman Zoo offers a zoo and park, and the Zumbro River and Silver Lake are close by for time on the water. For a longer outing, Lake Pepin is a lake a longer drive away, and the Rochester Art Center is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 522households
- 58%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Olmsted County had 105,239 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more 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 58°. About 44 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Byron 4north weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Olmsted County
- Mayo Clinic Hospital RochesterGeneral hospital9,072FTE
- Rochester Public School DistrictSchool district2,256FTE
- Olmsted CountyGeneral public administration1,381
- Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and ScienceUniversity or college1,232
- City of RochesterParks and recreation commission, government1,182
- Olmsted Medical CenterGeneral hospital948FTE
- Benchmark RochesterPrinted circuit assemblies manufacturing664
- Rochester Athletic ClubAthletic club facilities, physical fitness508
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 200 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 47,705 people in all across the county; Oronoco has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Oronoco’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 Olmsted County and the Rochester, MN metro.
Oronoco home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Oronoco$566,514
- 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.
- Oronoco17
Zip codes with a Oronoco address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oronoco — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.