Menahga, Minnesota.
Typical home $198,494 (+7.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$558 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,596 +7%
- $184,899$198,494 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $35,272 +22%
- $163,222$198,494 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.
- Menahga$1,042
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Menahga, MN rose 7.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Menahga, Wadena County, Minnesota
Menahga is a city of 1,340 people in Wadena County. Half its households earn more than $58,036 a year and half less, against $61,467 across Wadena County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in Wadena County was 6.1% in August 2026, and the county had 4.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Menahga is a small city in Wadena County where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run a little below the county's, and a typical home is valued at about what Zillow lists for it, in the range shown beside this text. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest; the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing many. Across Wadena County, the largest workplaces include Astera Health, Walmart and the Wadena-Deer Creek School District. Unemployment in the county is higher than a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Stocking Lake lies in or beside town, and the Kettle River runs there too. A short drive away are Jim Cook Lake and the Fishhook River, with more small lakes and rivers around them. Badoura State Forest, a protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 566households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wadena County had 5,398 jobs in 2025, 4.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 18° and lows near -3°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 57°. About 24 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Park Rapids Municipal Airport weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wadena County
- Astera HealthGeneral medical and surgical hospitals480
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters211
- Wadena-deer Creek School DistrictSchool district159FTE
- Menahga Public School DistrictSchool district154FTE
- Greenwood ConnectionsHomes for the elderly with nursing care131
- Freshwater Education DistrictSchool district107FTE
- SecondaryK-12 education107
- ElementaryK-12 education106
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 30 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,124 people in all across the county; Menahga has two of its own. School districts come 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 weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Menahga’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 Wadena County.
Menahga home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Menahga$198,494
- 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.
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.
- Menahga11
Zip codes with a Menahga address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Menahga — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.