Badger, Minnesota.
Typical home $204,718 (-0.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$9 (+1%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Down $510 -0%
- $205,228$204,718 since Sep 2025
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.
- Badger$1,075
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Badger, MN fell 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Badger, Roseau County, Minnesota
Badger is a city of 429 people in Roseau County. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Roseau County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Roseau County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Badger is a very small city in northwest Minnesota, home to fewer people than most towns of its kind. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical home value sits modestly. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month, while July brings pleasantly warm days, and the year's rain and melted snow adds up to a moderate amount.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in shops, with some in farming and forestry. Across Roseau County, among the largest workplaces are Marvin Lumber and Cedar Company - Minnesota, Lifecare Medical Center and Central Boiler. Commutes are short, and few people work from home. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. The outdoors is the main draw. Hayes Lake State Park and Lake Bronson State Park are protected areas for camping, walking and time by the water, and Thief Lake is a lake for fishing and boating. Each is a longer drive away, as is Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area known for its wildlife.
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- 160households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Roseau County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Roseau County had 7,687 jobs in 2025, 3.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 13° and lows near -8°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 55°. About 28 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Warroad weather station, 32 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Roseau County
- Marvin Lumber and Cedar Company - MinnesotaWood window and door manufacturing3,193
- Lifecare Medical CenterCritical access hospital291FTE
- Central BoilerFurnaces, heating, manufacturing179
- Roseau Public School DistrictSchool district159FTE
- Warroad Public School DistrictSchool district153FTE
- Independent School DistrictSchool districts, elementary or secondary108
- Hugo'sSupermarkets89
- City of RoseauGeneral public administration63
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,948 people in all across the county; Badger has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Badger’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 Roseau County.
Badger home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Badger$204,718
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Badger7
Zip codes with a Badger address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Badger — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.