Littlefork, Minnesota.
Typical home $165,688 (+2.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$417 (+92%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,759 +2%
- $161,930$165,688 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,031 +16%
- $142,657$165,688 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.
- Littlefork$870
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Littlefork, MN rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Littlefork, Koochiching County, Minnesota
Littlefork is a city of 553 people in Koochiching County. Half its households earn more than $64,130 a year and half less, against $66,940 across Koochiching County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Koochiching County was 6.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Koochiching 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Littlefork is a very small city in Koochiching County, Minnesota, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Household incomes are a little below the county's, and homes are modestly priced. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month, nights well below zero and a good deal of snow through the season. Summers are pleasantly warm, with July the warmest month, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and banks, insurance and property also employing many. Across Koochiching County, the largest workplaces include Packaging Corporation of America, Rainy Lake Medical Center and International Falls Memorial Hospital. Unemployment across the county is higher than it was a year earlier, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. A small share of residents work from home.
Things to do. The Little Fork River and the Cross River are both a short drive away and are the closest places to spend time by the water. Farther out, Kabetogama State Forest is a protected area of woods, and Kabetogama Lake is a larger lake, each a longer drive away.
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- 7%below the poverty line
- 6%work from home
What people in Koochiching County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Koochiching County had 4,163 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 15° and lows near -8°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 54°. About 54 inches of snow and 27 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Littlefork Southwest weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Koochiching County
- Packaging Corporation of America596
- Rainy Lake Medical CenterGroup hospitalization plans providing health care services226
- Intl Falls Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital167FTE
- International Falls School DistrictSchool district143FTE
- Northome SchoolSchool districts, elementary or secondary126
- Menards"home centers"89
- City of International FallsAmbulance and fire service combined72
- National Park ServiceFederal government · Department of the Interior70
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,571 people in all across the county; Littlefork has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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 weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Littlefork’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 Koochiching County.
Littlefork home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Littlefork$165,688
- 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.
- Littlefork6
Zip codes with a Littlefork address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Littlefork — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.