Salol, Minnesota.
Typical home $233,734 (+2.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$75 (+7%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $5,933 +3%
- $227,802$233,734 since Sep 2025
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.
- Salol$1,227
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Salol, MN rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Salol, Roseau County, Minnesota
The Census does not count Salol on its own, so the figures here are Roseau County's. Half the county's households earn more than $74,474 a year and half less; 12% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 79% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 21% are rented. Unemployment in Roseau County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Roseau County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Salol is a small town in Roseau County, in the northwest corner of Minnesota. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the population skews toward people past middle age. Winters are very cold, summers are warm, and a fair amount of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, or in shops, and others work in farming, forestry and mining. Across Roseau County, the number of jobs fell over the past year, and unemployment has risen slightly over the same stretch. Relatively few adults hold a four-year degree compared with many other places.
Things to do. Lost River, a river a short drive away, and Lost River State Forest, a protected area also a short drive away, are the nearest outdoor spots. Hayes Lake State Park, a protected area a longer drive away, is a further option for a day trip.
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- 6,296households
- 41.9median age
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Roseau County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Roseau County had 7,687 jobs in 2025, 3.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 13° and lows near -8°; warmest in July, with highs near 77° and lows near 55°. About 28 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Warroad weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Roseau County
- Marvin Lumber and Cedar Company - MinnesotaWood window and door manufacturing3,193
- Lifecare Medical CenterCritical access hospital291FTE
- Central BoilerFurnaces, heating, manufacturing179
- Roseau Public School DistrictSchool district159FTE
- Warroad Public School DistrictSchool district153FTE
- Independent School DistrictSchool districts, elementary or secondary108
- Hugo'sSupermarkets89
- City of RoseauGeneral public administration63
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,948 people in all. 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
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Roseau County, 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 Roseau County.
Salol home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Salol$233,734
- 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.
Zip codes with a Salol address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Salol — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.