Skyline, Minnesota.
Typical home $355,223 (+2.4% in a year). Mankato, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$947 (+103%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,487 +2%
- $346,736$355,223 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $63,469 +22%
- $291,754$355,223 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.
- Skyline$1,864
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Skyline, MN rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Skyline, Blue Earth County, Minnesota
Skyline is a city of 288 people in Blue Earth County. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. Unemployment in Blue Earth County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Blue Earth County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Skyline is a very small city in Blue Earth County, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home, a much higher share than across the county as a whole. Adults here are more likely than most to hold a four-year degree, and a good number of residents work from home. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and snow is plentiful. Summers are warm, with July the warmest month, and there is a fair amount of rain across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Blue Earth County, some of the largest workplaces are Mchs - Southwest Minnesota Region, Minnesota State University-Mankato and the Mankato Public School District. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than it was a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. The Le Sueur River runs in or beside town, and Mount Kato, a ski area, is close by as well. Minneopa State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, which makes it an easy outing for walking and time outdoors. Sibley Park, a garden in or beside town, is another quiet spot to spend an afternoon.
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- 47%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 16%work from home
What people in Blue Earth County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Blue Earth County had 41,483 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 39 inches of snow and 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mankato weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Blue Earth County
- Mchs - Southwest Minnesota RegionGeneral hospital1,692FTE
- Minnesota State University-MankatoUniversity or college1,619
- MRCI Energy DriveVocational rehabilitation or habilitation services1,269
- Mankato Public School DistrictSchool district942FTE
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage552
- Rolls Royce Solutions America Inc. Power Drive MankatoMotor generator sets manufacturing474
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores432
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters386
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 122 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,761 people in all across the county; Skyline has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Skyline’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Blue Earth County and the Mankato, MN metro.
Skyline home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Skyline$355,223
- 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.
Zip codes with a Skyline address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Skyline — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.