Viking, Minnesota.
Typical home $259,536 (+5.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$653 (+92%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,642 +6%
- $245,894$259,536 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,627 +12%
- $230,909$259,536 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.
- Viking$1,362
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 30 years.
Typical home values in Viking, MN rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Viking, Marshall County, Minnesota
Viking is a city of 79 people in Marshall County. Half its households earn more than $76,607 a year and half less, against $72,543 across Marshall County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 97% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 3% are rented. Unemployment in Marshall County was 6.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Marshall County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Viking is a very small city in Marshall County, in the northwestern part of Minnesota. Most of its homes are lived in by their owners, and its households have incomes above the county's median. Winters are colder than in most of the country, while summers are warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in manufacturing, with farming, forestry and mining also providing jobs. Shops are another common source of work. Unemployment rose over the past year, and jobs dipped slightly, while fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country as a whole.
Things to do. Old Mill State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge is another protected area in the same direction. The Mud River, a river, is also a longer drive away.
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- 17%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
What people in Marshall County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marshall County had 2,430 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 14° and lows near -3°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 57°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Thief River Falls weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marshall County
- Warren-alvarado-oslo School DistSchool district92FTE
- North Star ManorSeniors multi-service86
- Marshall County CourthouseLaw enforcement statistics centers, government85
- Marshall County Central SchoolsSchool district73FTE
- North Valley Health CenterCritical access hospital61FTE
- Oldcastle InfrastructureAll other plastics product manufacturing47
- Stephen-argyle Central SchoolsSchool district47FTE
- Central Garden & Pet46
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 691 people in all across the county; Viking 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 weatherVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Viking’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 Marshall County.
Viking home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Viking$259,536
- 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 Viking address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Viking — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.