Rochert, Minnesota.
Typical home $411,289 (+6.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,195 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $25,053 +6%
- $386,236$411,289 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $101,720 +33%
- $309,569$411,289 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.
- Rochert$2,159
- 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 Rochert, MN rose 6.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rochert, Becker County, Minnesota
The Census does not count Rochert on its own, so the figures here are Becker County's. Half the county's households earn more than $71,388 a year and half less; 13% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 77% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Becker County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Becker County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rochert is in Becker County in northwestern Minnesota, where winters are colder than most of the country and summers are warm. Across Becker County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and residents are older on average than people across the country as a whole.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, or in the building trades. Jobs across the county grew slightly over the past year, although unemployment has risen since last year. Working from home is less common here than in much of the country, and most commutes are short.
Things to do. Lake Itasca, a longer drive away, is one of the best known places nearby, and it is where the Mississippi River begins. Closer to town, Pelican River and Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge are each a short drive away, offering a river and a protected area.
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- 14,410households
- 43.5median age
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Becker County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Becker County had 15,368 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 18° and lows near -4°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 60°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tamarac Wildlife Re weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Becker County
- LakeshirtsPrinting, screen709
- St. Marys Regional Health CenterGeneral hospital435FTE
- Detroit Lakes Public School DistSchool district434FTE
- BTD ManufacturingMetal manufacturing414
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters374
- Minnesota Department of TransportationTransportation departments, nonoperating292
- SJE-RhombusControllers for process variables manufacturing235
- District WideK-12 education229
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 60 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,104 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Becker County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Becker County.
Rochert home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rochert$411,289
- 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.
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Zip codes with a Rochert address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rochert — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.