Plainview, Minnesota.
Typical home $287,119 (+3.7% in a year). Rochester, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$821 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,370 +4%
- $276,749$287,119 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,886 +28%
- $224,233$287,119 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.
- Plainview$1,507
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Plainview, MN rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Plainview, Wabasha County, Minnesota
Plainview is a city of 3,483 people in Wabasha County. Half its households earn more than $82,926 a year and half less, against $82,007 across Wabasha County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Wabasha County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Plainview is a small city in Wabasha County, Minnesota, where most homes are lived in by their owners and household incomes sit a little above the county's. The population is younger than in many small towns, and fewer people live below the poverty line than in much of the country. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days and the year is fairly wet.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Lakeside Foods Plainview, which cans fruits and vegetables, the Plainview-Elgin-Millville Schools and Monarch Healthcare Management are among the largest workplaces in town. Unemployment across the county has risen over the past year, and the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. The Jon Hassler Theater is in or beside town, and Carley State Park and Whitewater State Park are each a short drive away for walking and time outdoors. Lake Pepin, a lake on the Mississippi, is a longer drive away for a day by the water.
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- 1,312households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wabasha County had 6,512 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 4°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 60°. About 48 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Theilman 1SSW weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Plainview
- Lakeside Foods PlainviewCanning fruits and vegetables207
- Plainview-elgin-millville SchoolsSchool district158FTE
- Monarch Healthcare ManagmentSkilled nursing facilities81
- Plainview Milk Products CooperativeDry milk products and mixture manufacturing33
- Peoples State BankCommercial banking30
- TaherCafeteria food services contractors30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 381 people in all. 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
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Plainview’s 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 Wabasha County and the Rochester, MN metro.
Plainview home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Plainview$287,119
- 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.
- Plainview12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Plainview5
Zip codes with a Plainview address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Plainview — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.