Osage, Minnesota.
Typical home $323,983 (+7.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,003 (+144%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,957 +8%
- $301,026$323,983 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $96,833 +43%
- $227,149$323,983 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.
- Osage$1,701
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Osage, MN rose 7.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Osage, Becker County, Minnesota
Osage, in Becker County, had 282 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $48,333 a year and half less, against $71,388 across Becker County. Unemployment in Becker County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Becker 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Osage is a very small community in northern Minnesota, home to few people and set among lakes and rivers. Household incomes here run well below the county's, while the typical home is worth a good deal. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and nights well below freezing, and summers are pleasantly warm, with July the warmest. Precipitation across the year is modest, falling as rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Not many adults here hold a four-year degree. Across Becker County, the largest workplaces include Lakeshirts, St. Marys Regional Health Center and the Detroit Lakes Public School District. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, though the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. Water is the main draw nearby. Portage Lake, Two Inlets Lake and Wolf Lake are all a short drive away, and the Blueberry River and Shell River are close as well. For a longer outing, Itasca State Park and Lake Itasca are a longer drive away, a protected area and a lake that many people in the region know well.
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- 132households
- 19%of adults have a degree
What people in Becker County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Becker County had 15,368 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more 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, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Becker County
- LakeshirtsPrinting, screen709
- St. Marys Regional Health CenterGeneral hospital435FTE
- Detroit Lakes Public School DistSchool district434FTE
- BTD ManufacturingMetal manufacturing414
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters374
- Minnesota Department of TransportationTransportation departments, nonoperating292
- SJE-RhombusControllers for process variables manufacturing235
- District WideK-12 education229
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 60 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,104 people in all across the county; Osage has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Osage’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 Becker County.
Osage home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Osage$323,983
- 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.
- Osage7
Zip codes with a Osage address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Osage — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.