Webster, Minnesota.
Typical home $561,079 (+5.1% in a year). Faribault-Northfield, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,500 (+104%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $27,443 +5%
- $533,636$561,079 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $82,449 +17%
- $478,629$561,079 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.
- Webster$2,945
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Webster, MN rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Webster, Rice County, Minnesota
Webster is a township of 1,777 people in Rice County. Half its households earn more than $119,671 a year and half less, against $83,181 across Rice County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 99% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 1% are rented. Unemployment in Rice County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Webster is a township in Rice County, Minnesota, and a small community by any measure. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, and household incomes run well above the county's, with fewer people living below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days and the year has a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, other services, and professional and business services close behind. Across Rice County, some of the biggest workplaces are Carleton College, St Olaf College and Jennie-O Turkey Store. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Water is close by, with the Vermillion River, Union Lake and Chub Lake all a short drive away. Also a short drive off is the 3R Landmark School Museum, and a longer drive brings you to Valleyfair, an amusement park, and the Minnesota Zoo.
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- 597households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rice County had 26,450 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 23° and lows near 5°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 61°. About 43 inches of snow and 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Faribault weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rice County
- Jennie-O Turkey StoreTurkeys, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked911
- Carleton CollegeUniversity or college897
- St Olaf CollegeUniversity or college836
- PCBBreakfast cereal manufacturing640
- MN Department of CorrectionsCorrectional institutions599
- Daikin Applied - Faribault SouthHeating and air conditioning combination units manufacturing555
- Faribault Public School DistrictSchool district531FTE
- Far - Aldi INC Minnesota514
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 86 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,309 people in all across the county; Webster has none of its own. Colleges come 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Rice County, 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 Rice County and the Faribault-Northfield, MN metro.
Webster home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Webster$561,079
- 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.
- Webster7
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Webster address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Webster — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.