Trimont, Minnesota.
Typical home $213,560 (+6.9% in a year). Fairmont, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$699 (+166%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,705 +7%
- $199,855$213,560 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,606 +48%
- $143,954$213,560 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.
- Trimont$1,121
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Trimont, MN rose 6.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Trimont, Martin County, Minnesota
Trimont is a city of 705 people in Martin County. Half its households earn more than $49,196 a year and half less, against $59,507 across Martin County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Martin County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Trimont is a small city in Martin County, Minnesota, with a population that makes it a place where neighbors are likely to know one another. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run below the county's. A four-year degree is held by a smaller share of adults than in many places, and the typical commute is short. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities also employing a good number. Across Martin County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, Mayo Clinic Health System-Fairmont and the Fairmont Area School District. Unemployment across the county is about where it was a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs than it had the year before.
Things to do. Cedar Lake is in or beside town, and Fox Lake and Lake Seymour are lakes a short drive away. Kilen Woods State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away for those who want woods and trails.
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- 271households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Martin County had 8,383 jobs in 2025, 1.7% 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 61°. About 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sherburn 3WSW weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Martin County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters244
- Mayo Clinic Health System-fairmontGeneral hospital243FTE
- Fairmont Area School DistrictSchool district241FTE
- Devenish NutritionFeed additives merchant wholesalers170
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores167
- City of FairmontGeneral public administration159
- The County of MartinGeneral public administration134
- Martin County West School DistrictSchool district109FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 36 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,815 people in all across the county; Trimont has two of its own. 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 weatherVery high
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Trimont’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 Martin County and the Fairmont, MN metro.
Trimont home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Trimont$213,560
- 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.
- Trimont8
Zip codes with a Trimont address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Trimont — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.