Akeley, Minnesota.
Typical home $287,067 (-0.1% in a year). Brainerd, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$800 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $422 -0%
- $287,490$287,067 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,272 +22%
- $235,795$287,067 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.
- Akeley$1,507
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Akeley, MN fell 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Akeley, Hubbard County, Minnesota
Akeley is a city of 404 people in Hubbard County. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Hubbard County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hubbard County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Akeley is a very small city in Hubbard County, Minnesota, where nearly everyone who lives in a home owns it. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and temperatures well below freezing, while summers are warm without being hot. Precipitation falls as a mix of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Hubbard County, the largest workplaces include Lamb Weston, which makes frozen fruit and vegetable products, the Park Rapids Public School District and Walmart. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Eleventh Crow Wing Lake lies in or beside town, and Ten Mile Lake, Ham Lake and the Shingobee River are all a short drive away. For a longer outing, Itasca State Park, home to the headwaters of the Mississippi, is a longer drive away. The area is largely a place for lakes, rivers and time outdoors.
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- 142households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 17 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Hubbard County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hubbard County had 6,286 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 19° and lows near 1°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 59°. About 28 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Walker weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hubbard County
- Lamb WestonFrozen fruit, juice, and vegetable manufacturing436
- Park Rapids Public School DistrictSchool district256FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters251
- St. Josephs Area Health ServicesCritical access hospital167FTE
- Hubbard County - RevenueCounty supervisors' and executives' offices143
- ISDK -12 education129
- PotlatchDeltic Land & LumberBeams, wood, made from logs or bolts116
- Cb-vivie-crystal BrookHealthcare111
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 31 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,906 people in all across the county; Akeley has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Akeley’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 Hubbard County and the Brainerd, MN metro.
Akeley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Akeley$287,067
- Minnesota$348,778
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Akeley listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Akeley21.75%
- United States25.56%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Akeley19
Zip codes with a Akeley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Akeley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.