A typical New Auburn home is worth roughly $159,000
Builders were permitted 2 new homes in 2025.
What kind of housing town is New Auburn?
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What it takes to buy in New Auburn
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That covers a typical New Auburn home, with $181K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $980 a month here, $10 more than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Minnesota typical property tax (1.02% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
A two-bedroom rents for about $980
Renters already here pay a median of $738, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Sibley County, MN): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
2 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 2 new homes in New Auburn in 2025, all in buildings with two or more homes. Over the past 10 years, New Auburn has permitted 2 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, New Auburn's population fell by 45 and no new homes were permitted. Across Minnesota: 2.2 new residents per new home.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 2 | 0 | 2 | $373,000 |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | 2 | $373,000 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $161,000 |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2005 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $777,000 |
| 2004 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $777,000 |
| 2003 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $270,000 |
| 2002 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $270,000 |
| 2001 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $270,000 |
| 2000 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $350,000 |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
80% of New Auburn households own their home
Half of New Auburn’s homes were built before 1975.
Minnesota: 72% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
On the market in New Auburn
Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.
Neighbors talk housing
What New Auburn buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.