Askov, Minnesota.
Typical home $176,996 (+3.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$581 (+167%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,501 +3%
- $171,495$176,996 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $39,770 +29%
- $137,226$176,996 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.
- Askov$929
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Askov, MN rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Askov, Pine County, Minnesota
Askov is a city of 331 people in Pine County. Unemployment in Pine County was 6.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pine 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Askov is a very small city in Pine County, Minnesota, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Typical home values here are modest, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than is common across the country. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most places, and few people work from home. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying below freezing, while July brings warm summer days. Precipitation, rain and melted snow together, comes to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Residents of Askov mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades and in manufacturing. Unemployment across Pine County is higher than it was a year earlier, though the county had slightly more jobs last year than the year before. Among the largest workplaces across Pine County are Walmart, the Pine City Public School District and the Hinckley-Finlayson School District.
Things to do. Outdoor places are the main draw. D.A.R. State Forest is a protected area in or beside town, and Banning State Park, also protected land, is a short drive away. The Willow River and the Pine River are both a short drive away, and St. Croix State Park is a longer drive for a full day out.
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- 176households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 24%below the poverty line
- 6%work from home
What people in Pine County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pine County had 7,906 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 20° and lows near 2°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 56°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sandstone West weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pine County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters327
- Pine City Public School DistrictSchool district175FTE
- Hinckley-finlayson School DistrictSchool district159FTE
- Bureau of Prisons/federal Prison SystemFederal government · Department of Justice128
- Pine Technical & Community CollegeTwo-year college123
- PhaseSocial service centers, multipurpose113
- Essentia Health SandstoneHospitals, general medical and surgical111
- East Central School DistrictSchool district101FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,886 people in all across the county; Askov has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Askov’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 Pine County.
Askov home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Askov$176,996
- 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.
Zip codes with a Askov address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Askov — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.