Pemberton, Minnesota.
Typical home $242,436 (+7.2% in a year). Mankato, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$713 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,346 +7%
- $226,090$242,436 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,879 +32%
- $183,557$242,436 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.
- Pemberton$1,272
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Pemberton, MN rose 7.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pemberton, Blue Earth County, Minnesota
Pemberton is a city of 229 people in Blue Earth County. Half its households earn more than $50,417 a year and half less, against $74,477 across Blue Earth County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Blue Earth County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Blue Earth County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pemberton is a very small city, home to a young population with a median age well below that of most American towns. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and incomes run below the county's, with a share of residents living below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and restaurants and hotels. Across Blue Earth County, some of the largest workplaces are the Mankato hospital system, Minnesota State University-Mankato and the Mankato Public School District. Fewer adults than across much of the country hold a four-year degree, and most people commute to work, since very few work from home.
Things to do. Indian Lake is a short drive away and is the closest spot for time by the water. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Minneopa State Park, a protected area, and to the Le Sueur River, one of several rivers in the area. Residents also have a number of lakes within a longer drive.
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- 18%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Blue Earth County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Blue Earth County had 41,483 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 22° and lows near 5°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 61°. About 52 inches of snow and 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Waseca South Rsch & Outreach Ctr weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Blue Earth County
- Mchs - Southwest Minnesota RegionGeneral hospital1,692FTE
- Minnesota State University-MankatoUniversity or college1,619
- MRCI Energy DriveVocational rehabilitation or habilitation services1,269
- Mankato Public School DistrictSchool district942FTE
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage552
- Rolls Royce Solutions America Inc. Power Drive MankatoMotor generator sets manufacturing474
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores432
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters386
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 122 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,761 people in all across the county; Pemberton has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively 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 Pemberton’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 Blue Earth County and the Mankato, MN metro.
Pemberton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pemberton$242,436
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Pemberton5
Zip codes with a Pemberton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pemberton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.