Scandia, Minnesota.
Typical home $553,663 (+4.6% in a year). Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,565 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $24,252 +5%
- $529,411$553,663 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $90,327 +19%
- $463,336$553,663 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.
- Scandia$2,906
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Scandia, MN rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Scandia, Washington County, Minnesota
Scandia is a city of 3,984 people in Washington County. Half its households earn more than $101,953 a year and half less, against $115,345 across Washington County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Scandia is a small city in Washington County where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, a much higher share than across the county. Household incomes run somewhat below the county's, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January highs staying below freezing, while July brings warm days; precipitation is steady through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and banks, insurance and property also well represented. In Scandia itself, the largest workplaces include Scandia Elementary School, the City of Scandia and Abrahamson Nurseries. Commutes are fairly long, though a good number of residents work from home, and across Washington County unemployment has risen a little over the past year.
Things to do. A short drive away, William O'Brien State Park is a protected area of woods and riverside, and the Sunrise River also lies close by. For museums, the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Walker Art Center are both a longer drive away, as is Target Field for baseball.
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- 1,455households
- 41%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 21%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 24° and lows near 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 60°. About 52 inches of snow and 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Forest Lake 5NE weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Scandia
- Scandia Elementary SchoolElementary schools65
- City of ScandiaGeneral public administration41
- Abrahamson Nurseries - ScandiaGarden centers36
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 142 people in all. 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively 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 Scandia’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 Washington County and the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro.
Scandia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Scandia$553,663
- 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.
- Scandia10
Zip codes with a Scandia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Scandia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.