Upsala, Minnesota.
Typical home $214,597 (+3.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$607 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,098 +4%
- $206,499$214,597 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,068 +28%
- $167,528$214,597 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.
- Upsala$1,126
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Upsala, MN rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Upsala, Morrison County, Minnesota
Upsala is a city of 487 people in Morrison County. Half its households earn more than $52,625 a year and half less, against $69,446 across Morrison County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Morrison County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Morrison 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Upsala is a very small city in Morrison County, Minnesota, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold, with January highs staying near freezing at the very most and lows around zero, and plenty of snow falls each year. Summers are warm, and rain and melted snow arrive in a fairly ordinary amount for the region.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Few people work from home, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is typical across much of the country. Across Morrison County, some of the largest workplaces are Little Falls Community Schools, St. Gabriels Hospital and Barrett Petfood Innovations in Little Falls. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs has barely changed.
Things to do. The Little Two River runs in or beside town, and Trace Lake and Big Birch Lake are a short drive away for fishing or time by the water. For a longer outing, Charles A. Lindbergh State Park is a protected area a longer drive away. The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library is a museum, also a longer drive away.
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- 195households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 2%work from home
What people in Morrison County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Morrison County had 11,202 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 0°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 60°. About 39 inches of snow and 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Melrose weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Morrison County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters359
- Little Falls Community SchoolsSchool district329FTE
- Northern Pines Mental Health CenterMental health centers and clinics, outpatient276
- High School EmployeesHigh schools246
- St. Gabriels HospitalCritical access hospital242FTE
- Independent School DistrictElementary and secondary schools200
- Barrett Petfood Innovations Little FallsAnimal feeds, prepared, dog and cat, manufacturing185
- LakeshirtsPrinting, screen181
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 44 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,779 people in all across the county; Upsala has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- LightningVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Upsala’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 Morrison County.
Upsala home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Upsala$214,597
- 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 Upsala address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Upsala — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.