Find land to build on in the Twin Cities

23,013 potential building sites in 183 Twin Cities communities

Location

A city, school district or ISD number, ZIP, subdivision or street address — or open the list for every city, by county. Pick more than one city to search them together.

School district

The boundary sets the resident district, not eligibility: under open enrollment a student may apply to a school in another district (Minn. Stat. § 124D.03).

Main filtersLot size By water (lake/shoreland area)Wooded Who holds it

“By water” means the parcel sits in a DNR lake/shoreland area — not necessarily lakefront. “Wooded” is measured tree canopy from the 2015 UMN 1-m dataset (modeled; conditions may have changed).

Showing lots of 0.15 to 10 acres, outside known commercial, industrial and public zoning districts.

Include acreage & farmland (10+ ac) Include small or irregular parcels

Site details (flood, wetlands, slope, utilities)

Flood risk Wetlands Public waters (DNR) City sewer Min acres Max acres Zoning Include commercial, industrial & public districts

Zoomed out, each circle is one city and its number is that city’s whole-city total; zoom in for the individual sites. Grey circles are cities we haven’t loaded yet — their number is the county’s own count of vacant or near-zero-value parcels, which we have not screened.

Sites in this map view

Loading sites in this map view…Bounded by the map view and the filters above — not a whole-city total.

Potential building sites in view — accessible alternative to the map
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Browse a whole city — every site we hold in that city, whatever the map is showing:

Ramsey County

Scott County