Fisher, Minnesota.
Typical home $271,811 (+5.5% in a year). Grand Forks, ND-MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$749 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,127 +5%
- $257,684$271,811 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,405 +29%
- $211,406$271,811 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.
- Fisher$1,427
- 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 Fisher, MN rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fisher, Polk County, Minnesota
Fisher is a city of 422 people in Polk County. Half its households earn more than $93,542 a year and half less, against $73,107 across Polk County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Polk County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fisher is a small city in Polk County, Minnesota, and a very small one, with far fewer residents than most towns people know. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run well above the county's, with fewer people living below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and nights well below zero, while July brings warm days, and the year's rain and melted snow is modest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing close behind, followed by banks, insurance and property work and other services. Across Polk County, the largest workplaces include New Flyer of America, which builds buses, and American Crystal Sugar Company, which has beet sugar plants in Crookston and East Grand Forks. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Red River State Recreation Area is a protected area a longer drive away, and Glacial Ridge National Wildlife Refuge is another protected area, also a longer drive away. The Red Lake River, one of the rivers in the region, is likewise a longer drive from town. For an evening out, the Chester Fritz Auditorium is a theatre, again a longer drive away.
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- 160households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Polk County had 12,003 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 16° and lows near -4°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 58°. About 22 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Crookston Northwest Experiment Station weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Polk County
- Diocese of CrookstonChurches537
- New Flyer of AmericaAssembly plants, heavy trucks, and buses on chassis of own manufacture419
- American Crystal Sugar Company East Grand ForksGranulated beet sugar manufacturing408
- Polk CountyCounty supervisors' and executives' offices386
- American Crystal Sugar Company CrookstonGranulated beet sugar manufacturing320
- East Grand Forks Public SchoolsSchool district298FTE
- University of Minnesota-CrookstonUniversity or college288
- Riverview Healthcare AssociationCritical access hospital280FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 53 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,576 people in all across the county; Fisher has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fisher’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Polk County and the Grand Forks, ND-MN metro.
Fisher home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fisher$271,811
- 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 Fisher address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fisher — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.