Oklee, Minnesota.
Typical home $196,077 (+6.8% in a year). Grand Forks, ND-MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$494 (+92%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,459 +7%
- $183,618$196,077 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $19,813 +11%
- $176,264$196,077 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.
- Oklee$1,029
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 33 years.
Typical home values in Oklee, MN rose 6.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Oklee, Red Lake County, Minnesota
Oklee is a city of 413 people in Red Lake County. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Red Lake County was 6.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Red Lake 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oklee is a very small city in Red Lake County, Minnesota, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Homes cost less than in much of the country, and incomes in the county are well above what many rural counties see. Winters are long and hard, with January the coldest month and temperatures that stay well below freezing, while July brings warm summer 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 wholesale. Across Red Lake County, the largest workplaces include Red Lake County Cooperative, a farm supplies wholesaler, and the Red Lake Falls Public School District. Unemployment in the county is higher than it was a year ago, and there are fewer jobs than the year before. Most people commute a fair distance to work, and very few work from home.
Things to do. Hill River is a river a short drive away, and it is the nearest of the area's waters. A longer drive brings you to Rydell National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, and to Union Lake, a lake for fishing and time on the water. The Poplar River is also on the list of longer drives for anyone who likes to be near running water.
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- 163households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Red Lake County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Red Lake County had 958 jobs in 2025, 2.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 16° and lows near -5°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 55°. About 27 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fosston East weather station, 20 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Red Lake County
- Red Lake County CooperativeFarm supplies merchant wholesalers88
- Red Lake Falls Public School DistSchool district74FTE
- Red Lake County Central Public SCHSchool district70FTE
- Redwood Family Care NetworkResidential intellectual and development62
- Central Boiler, Inc.-Red lake FallsFurnaces, heating, manufacturing46
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 196 people in all across the county; Oklee has one 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Oklee’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 Red Lake County and the Grand Forks, ND-MN metro.
Oklee home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Oklee$196,077
- 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.
- Oklee4
Zip codes with a Oklee address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oklee — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.