Laporte, Minnesota.
Typical home $305,200 (+1.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$885 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,042 +1%
- $302,158$305,200 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,411 +26%
- $242,789$305,200 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.
- Laporte$1,602
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Laporte, MN rose 1.0% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Laporte, Hubbard County, Minnesota
Laporte is a city of 134 people in Hubbard County. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Laporte is a very small city in Hubbard County, Minnesota, in lake-and-forest country. Almost everyone who lives here owns their home, far more than is typical across the county. A typical home is worth more than many people might expect for a town this size. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and nights well below freezing, while July brings pleasantly warm days. Rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing and the building trades. Across Hubbard County, some of the largest workplaces are Lamb Weston, the Park Rapids Public School District and St. Josephs Area Health Services. Household incomes across the county sit somewhat below those in much of the state, and the county's job market grew only slightly last year. The typical trip to work is a moderate one.
Things to do. Garfield Lake is in or beside town, and Kabekona Lake and Hart Lake are each a short drive away for fishing, boating or a quiet walk along the shore. The Necktie River, also a short drive off, offers a more tucked-away stretch of water. For a longer outing, Itasca State Park is a longer drive away and is one of the best known protected areas in the region.
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- 22 mintypical commute
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, 12 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; Laporte has two 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Laporte’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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.
Laporte home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Laporte$305,200
- 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 4 Laporte 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.
- Laporte22.51%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Laporte32
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Laporte7
Zip codes with a Laporte address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Laporte — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.