Saint Augusta, Minnesota.
Typical home $371,205 (+2.6% in a year). St. Cloud, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,054 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,235 +3%
- $361,971$371,205 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $66,815 +22%
- $304,391$371,205 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.
- Saint Augusta$1,948
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Saint Augusta, MN rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Saint Augusta, Stearns County, Minnesota
Saint Augusta is a city of 3,497 people in Stearns County. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. Unemployment in Stearns County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Saint Augusta is a small city in Stearns County where nearly every home is lived in by its owner, and renting is rare. Residents are younger on average than in many communities where owning is this common, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July, with a year's worth of rain and melted snow that is fairly typical for the region.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Stearns County, some of the largest workplaces are Blattner Company, St. Cloud Hospital and the Veterans Health Administration. The typical commute is a moderate drive, and a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Johnson Creek and Nixon Lake are both a short drive away, as is the Clearwater River. Munsinger Gardens and Clemens Gardens, a botanical garden, is also a short drive. Lake Maria State Park, a protected area, and the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library are a longer drive.
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- 1,248households
- 44%of adults have a degree
- 0%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Stearns County had 87,420 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 20° and lows near 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 60°. About 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kimball 3N weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Stearns County
- Blattner CompanyAlternative energy structure construction7,828
- St. Cloud HospitalGeneral hospital3,585FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,817
- St. Cloud Public School DistrictSchool district1,676FTE
- PilgrimsPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing1,531
- Rasmussen University-MinnesotaUniversity or college1,367
- Saint Cloud State UniversityUniversity or college1,116
- New Flyer USAAssembly plants, heavy trucks, and buses on chassis of own manufacture936
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 291 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 46,167 people in all across the county; Saint Augusta has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Saint Augusta’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 Stearns County and the St. Cloud, MN metro.
Saint Augusta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Saint Augusta$371,205
- 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.
- Saint Augusta15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Saint Augusta7
Zip codes with a Saint Augusta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Saint Augusta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Saint Augusta
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 55320 | Clearwater | 5,998 | — | $369,759 |
| 55353 | Kimball | 3,361 | — | $353,769 |