Minnesota mortgage data

In 2025, lenders originated 58,514 home-purchase mortgages on principal residences in Minnesota, with a median loan of $305,000. One percent of that median loan is $3,050.

That one percent is the expected agent-MLO figure: what a real-estate agent who is also the licensed loan originator on a deal would expect per median loan here at an expected ~100 bps, before any adjustment for the loan or the plan. The median total loan costs the buyer paid, $5,554, is the cost of the whole loan on the Closing Disclosure, not any one party's fee.

Home-purchase loans in 2025
58,514
Median loan
$305,000
Expected agent-MLO figure, one percent of the median loan
$3,0501what the agent who is also the loan originator would expect on the median loan at an expected ~100 bps
Median total loan costs
$5,55454,219 of 58,514 loans report costs
Lenders that originated here
595
Came through a broker or other third party
18.7%55,841 loans report the channel

By county

37 counties have a page of their own. 50 more counties had fewer than 250 loans, 5,343 in all, and are counted in the state figures above without a page of their own.

Counties in Minnesota with at least 250 home-purchase loans in 2025
CountyLoansMedian loan
Hennepin County12,910$335,000
Dakota County5,135$335,000
Ramsey County4,643$295,000
Anoka County4,236$325,000
Washington County3,705$375,000
Wright County2,396$345,000
Scott County1,866$375,000
Olmsted County1,813$295,000
St. Louis County1,790$225,000
Carver County1,562$405,000
Stearns County1,484$245,000
Sherburne County1,305$335,000
Clay County705$245,000
Chisago County658$325,000
Crow Wing County632$255,000
Rice County599$285,000
Blue Earth County535$245,000
Isanti County509$305,000
Goodhue County496$255,000
Benton County424$265,000
Otter Tail County419$225,000
Mower County401$185,000
Winona County400$205,000
McLeod County386$245,000
Itasca County373$225,000
Carlton County370$255,000
Steele County356$255,000
Mille Lacs County349$265,000
Nicollet County346$245,000
Douglas County333$285,000
Kandiyohi County331$225,000
Becker County290$265,000
Le Sueur County289$265,000
Morrison County280$235,000
Freeborn County265$165,000
Pine County263$255,000
Polk County251$215,000

Who lends in the state

Loans by lender kind
Lender kindLoansShare
Banks, thrifts and their mortgage subsidiaries19,87634.0%
Independent mortgage companies33,27256.9%
Credit unions5,3669.2%
Loans by program
ProgramLoansShare
FHA6,77511.6%
VA3,5596.1%
Conventional and other48,18082.3%
Lenders with the most home-purchase loans in the state, 2025
LenderKindLoansShare
Bell BankBank4,1387.1%
United Wholesale MortgageIndependent mortgage company3,9496.7%
Crosscountry Mortgage, LLCIndependent mortgage company2,3784.1%
Fairway Independent Mort CorpIndependent mortgage company1,9753.4%
Rocket MortgageIndependent mortgage company1,9043.3%

Counts of loans each lender filed under HMDA. A lender's place in this table is a count, not a rating or a recommendation.

How these numbers were made

Source: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's public HMDA Snapshot National Loan-Level Dataset for 2025, the loan-level file every covered mortgage lender files under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, as published by the FFIEC. Lender names and kinds come from the same release's transmittal sheet.

Filter: loans with action taken 1 (originated), loan purpose 1 (home purchase), occupancy type 1 (principal residence), lien status 1 (first lien), and not a reverse mortgage, not an open-end line of credit and not for a business or commercial purpose (each coded 2, or 1111 where the filer is exempt from reporting it). Refinances, second homes, investment properties, second liens, reverse mortgages, home equity lines, business-purpose loans and applications that did not close are not counted. Every figure on this page is over those loans in this state, including counties too small for a page of their own.

Rounding: the public file rounds each loan amount to the midpoint of its $10,000 band, so every amount ends in 5,000. Total loan costs are reported by most but not all lenders, and the costs median is over the loans that report them. A county gets a page at 250 or more home-purchase loans in the year, and a smaller county is counted in its state's figures. Lender kind follows the agency each lender files HMDA with, read from the name where that agency supervises more than one kind. A loan came through a broker or other third party when the lender reports the application was not submitted to it directly, which HMDA does not split further.

The same row of data is available as CSV and plain text. The data refreshes each June when the prior year's file is published. Built 2026-10-15.