Callaway, Minnesota.
Typical home $258,495 (+7.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$789 (+139%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,326 +8%
- $240,169$258,495 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,208 +35%
- $191,287$258,495 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.
- Callaway$1,357
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Callaway, MN rose 7.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Callaway, Becker County, Minnesota
Callaway is a city of 178 people in Becker County. Unemployment in Becker County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Becker County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Callaway is a very small city in Becker County, Minnesota, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Winters are long and cold, with a good deal of snow, and summers are pleasantly warm. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is typical across the country, and a share of residents live below the poverty line. Homes here are typically valued well below what they cost in many parts of the country.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. Across Becker County, some of the largest workplaces are Lakeshirts, St. Marys Regional Health Center and the Detroit Lakes Public School District. The county added jobs last year, though unemployment is somewhat higher than it was a year earlier. Most people have a short commute, and few work from home.
Things to do. Pelican River and Hamden Slough National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, are both a short drive away and suit walking, birdwatching and time by the water. Big Sugar Bush Lake is also close by, for anyone who likes a quiet lake. A longer drive brings you to Detroit Lake, one of the larger lakes in the area, and to Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area with woods and water.
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- 88households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Becker County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Becker County had 15,368 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 17° and lows near -4°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 58°. About 48 inches of snow and 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Detroit Lakes Nne weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Becker County
- LakeshirtsPrinting, screen709
- St. Marys Regional Health CenterGeneral hospital435FTE
- Detroit Lakes Public School DistSchool district434FTE
- BTD ManufacturingMetal manufacturing414
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters374
- Minnesota Department of TransportationTransportation departments, nonoperating292
- SJE-RhombusControllers for process variables manufacturing235
- District WideK-12 education229
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 60 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,104 people in all across the county; Callaway has none 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Callaway’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 Becker County.
Callaway home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Callaway$258,495
- 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 Callaway address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Callaway — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.