Spring Grove, Minnesota.
Typical home $265,817 (+5.7% in a year). La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$802 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,281 +6%
- $251,537$265,817 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $73,159 +38%
- $192,658$265,817 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.
- Spring Grove$1,395
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Spring Grove, MN rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Spring Grove, Houston County, Minnesota
Spring Grove is a city of 1,256 people in Houston County. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Houston County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Spring Grove is a small city in Houston County, Minnesota, and its residents are older than in most places, with a median age well above what you would find across the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and relatively few people live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm in July, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, manufacturing, and professional and business services. Across Houston County, the largest workplaces include school districts, Wieser Brothers General Contractor and Crest Precast. Jobs in the county grew over the past year, though unemployment there has edged up slightly, and the typical commute is a fairly long one, with some people working from home.
Things to do. Beaver Creek Valley State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is Riceford Creek, a small river. A longer drive brings you to the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum, which celebrates the region's Norwegian heritage, and to the Root River, a river popular with those who like to spend time on the water.
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- 579households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Houston County had 5,129 jobs in 2025, 1.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 4°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 58°. About 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mabel weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Houston County
- Independent School DistrictElementary and secondary schools270
- Houston Public School DistrictSchool district215FTE
- Wieser Brothers General ContractorConstruction190
- ElementaryK-12 education169
- La Crescent-hokah School DistrictSchool district157FTE
- Caledonia Public School DistrictSchool district125FTE
- Crest PrecastConcrete products, precast, manufacturing60
- LaX Fabricating LTD - Spring GroveSteel manufacturing56
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,131 people in all across the county; Spring Grove has one 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Spring Grove’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Houston County and the La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN metro.
Spring Grove home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Spring Grove$265,817
- 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.
- Spring Grove4
Zip codes with a Spring Grove address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Spring Grove — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.