Randolph, Minnesota.
Typical home $476,051 (+5.2% in a year). Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,249 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $23,523 +5%
- $452,529$476,051 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,672 +17%
- $408,379$476,051 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.
- Randolph$2,499
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Randolph, MN rose 5.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Randolph, Dakota County, Minnesota
Randolph is a city of 466 people in Dakota County. Half its households earn more than $104,286 a year and half less, against $106,318 across Dakota County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Dakota County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dakota County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Randolph is a very small city in Dakota County, Minnesota, where people tend to know their neighbors. Households here earn a little less than the county as a whole, and few residents live below the poverty line. Homes are valued well above what is typical across much of the country, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than you might expect near the Twin Cities. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest; snow is plentiful and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, manufacturing and shops. Across Dakota County, some of the largest workplaces are the Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan school district, Dakota County government and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota. Jobs in the county slipped slightly last year, and unemployment there is higher than it was a year ago. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Water is close by: Chub Creek runs in or beside town, and Lake Byllesby, a reservoir, is also in or beside town. A longer drive takes you to Nerstrand Big Woods State Park, a protected area of woodland, or to the Saint Croix River, one of the better known rivers in the region.
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- 178households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Dakota County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dakota County had 189,166 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 23° and lows near 8°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 63°. About 41 inches of snow and 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Farmington Northwest weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dakota County
- Prime Therapeutics - Prime Landing & RemoteDrug stores9,275
- Independent School DistrictElementary and secondary schools4,578
- Rosemount-apple Valley-eagan SchoolsSchool district3,838FTE
- Dakota CountyExecutive and legislative offices, combined3,169
- Thomson Reuters - EaganProgramming language and compiler software publishers, packaged3,070
- Ames ConstructionOverpass construction2,860
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of MinnesotaMedical service plans without providing health care services2,502
- Lakeville Area SchoolsSchool district1,675FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 686 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 103,227 people in all across the county; Randolph 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 high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Randolph’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 Dakota County and the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
Randolph home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Randolph$476,051
- 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.
- Randolph7
Zip codes with a Randolph address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Randolph — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.