Winthrop, Minnesota.
Typical home $240,566 (+6.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$625 (+98%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,255 +7%
- $225,311$240,566 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,482 +15%
- $210,084$240,566 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.
- Winthrop$1,263
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Winthrop, MN rose 6.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Winthrop, Sibley County, Minnesota
Winthrop is a city of 1,332 people in Sibley County. Half its households earn more than $69,219 a year and half less, against $77,634 across Sibley County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Sibley County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Winthrop is a small city in Sibley County, Minnesota, and most of the homes in it are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades, and restaurants and hotels also common. Among the largest workplaces in town are the City of Winthrop, Heartland Corn Products, which makes denatured alcohol, and Dairy Farmers of America. Jobs across Sibley County have dipped over the past year, and unemployment there is higher than it was a year ago. Commutes are fairly long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, Gaylord City Park is a garden, and Ward Lake and Hahn Lake offer water close to town. For a longer outing, Flandrau State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Fort Ridgely, a historic fort, is also a longer drive away.
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- 599households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sibley County had 3,771 jobs in 2025, 2.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 21° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 63°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Gaylord weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Winthrop
- City of WinthropCity and town managers' offices75
- Heartland corn ProductsDenatured alcohol manufacturing70
- Dairy Farmers of America63
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 208 people in all. 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 windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Winthrop’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 Sibley County.
Winthrop home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Winthrop$240,566
- 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.
- Winthrop10
Zip codes with a Winthrop address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Winthrop — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.