Pine Springs, Minnesota.
Typical home $621,198 (+4.7% in a year). Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,669 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $27,830 +5%
- $593,368$621,198 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $98,367 +19%
- $522,831$621,198 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.
- Pine Springs$3,261
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Pine Springs, MN rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pine Springs, Washington County, Minnesota
Pine Springs is a city of 377 people in Washington County. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pine Springs is a very small city in Washington County, Minnesota, with far fewer residents than most towns of its kind. Homes here are valued well above what is typical, and very few people live below the poverty line. Most adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold and snowy, with summers that turn pleasantly warm in July.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, professional and business services, and banking, insurance and property. Across Washington County, the largest workplaces include Andersen, MasTec Utility Services and South Washington County Schools. Commutes are fairly short, and many people work from home, more than is usual in much of the country. Unemployment across the county has risen a little over the past year, while the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. The Minnesota State Capitol, a museum and landmark, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Minneapolis Institute of Art, a museum, and to the Saint Croix River, a good choice for time on the water. Saint Anthony Falls, a waterfall on the Mississippi, is also a longer drive away.
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- 136households
- 64%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 31%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 22° and lows near 5°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 62°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Stillwater 2SW weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington County
- MasTec Utility ServicesConstruction management, power and communication transmission line4,420
- AndersenFrames, door and window, wood, manufacturing3,689
- South Washington County SchoolsSchool district2,407FTE
- Renewal by AndersenWindows and window frames, plastics, manufacturing2,125
- Andersen WindowsWindows and window frames merchant wholesalers1,656
- ISDIndependent school district #8341,242
- FedExCourier and express delivery services1,058
- Stillwater Area Public SchoolsSchool district985FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 299 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 47,544 people in all across the county; Pine Springs has none of its own. School districts come 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 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 Pine Springs’ 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 Washington County and the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
Pine Springs home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pine Springs$621,198
- 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 Pine Springs address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pine Springs — 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.