Solway, Minnesota.
Typical home $250,948 (+2.8% in a year). Bemidji, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$752 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,935 +3%
- $244,014$250,948 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $61,631 +33%
- $189,318$250,948 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.
- Solway$1,317
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Solway, MN rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Solway, Hubbard County, Minnesota
Solway is a city of 73 people in Hubbard County. Unemployment in Hubbard County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hubbard County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Solway is a very small city in Hubbard County, in north-central Minnesota. Winters are cold, colder than most of the country, with heavy snow, while summers are warm and rain falls at a moderate pace through the year. In a town this size, neighbors tend to know one another.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in shops, and manufacturing and the building trades are also common. Commutes are usually quick, so most jobs are close to home.
Things to do. Lake Itasca is a lake a longer drive away, and Itasca State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive off. Closer by, Buzzle Lake is a lake a short drive away.
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- 16 mintypical commute
What people in Hubbard County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hubbard County had 6,286 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 17° and lows near -4°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 55°. About 52 inches of snow and 28 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Itasca Univ Of Minn weather station, 21 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hubbard County
- Lamb WestonFrozen fruit, juice, and vegetable manufacturing436
- Park Rapids Public School DistrictSchool district256FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters251
- St. Josephs Area Health ServicesCritical access hospital167FTE
- Hubbard County - RevenueCounty supervisors' and executives' offices143
- ISDK -12 education129
- PotlatchDeltic Land & LumberBeams, wood, made from logs or bolts116
- Cb-vivie-crystal BrookHealthcare111
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 31 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,906 people in all across the county; Solway has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Solway’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 Hubbard County and the Bemidji, MN metro.
Solway home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Solway$250,948
- 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.
- Solway6
Zip codes with a Solway address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Solway — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.