Warba, Minnesota.
Typical home $220,015 (-0.8% in a year). Grand Rapids, MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$639 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,697 -1%
- $221,712$220,015 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,628 +19%
- $185,387$220,015 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.
- Warba$1,155
- Minnesota$1,831
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Warba, MN fell 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Warba, Itasca County, Minnesota
Warba is a city of 168 people in Itasca County. Half its households earn more than $59,688 a year and half less, against $68,603 across Itasca County. Unemployment in Itasca County was 6.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Itasca 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Warba is a very small city in Itasca County, Minnesota, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Household incomes run below the county's, and homes here are valued at a level that many buyers across the country would find within reach. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month and a good deal of snow, while July brings warm summer days.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing and the building trades. Across Itasca County, some of the largest workplaces are Grand Itasca Clinic and Hospital, the Grand Rapids Public School District and UPM - Blandin Paper. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and unemployment across the county has edged up over the past year.
Things to do. Cow Horn Lake and Split Hand Creek are a short drive away, and Golden Anniversary State Forest is close by as well, so woods and water are easy to reach. For a longer outing, Savanna Portage State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 12%of adults have a degree
- 5%work from home
What people in Itasca County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Itasca County had 16,444 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 19° and lows near -2°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 55°. About 60 inches of snow and 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Grand Rpds Forest Lab weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Itasca County
- Grand Itasca Clinic and HospitalGeneral hospital566FTE
- Grand Rapids Public School DistrictSchool district513FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters317
- UPM - Blandin PaperGroundwood paper, coated, made in paper mills216
- TargetDiscount department stores215
- Itasca CountyCounty supervisors' and executives' offices204
- Progressive CareAssisted living199
- Department of Natural ResourcesConservation and reclamation agencies178
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 66 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,941 people in all across the county; Warba has none 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Warba’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 Itasca County and the Grand Rapids, MN metro.
Warba home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Warba$220,015
- 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.
- Warba6
Zip codes with a Warba address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Warba — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.