Bigfork’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Bigfork has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Bigfork a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One of the benefits of Bigfork is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 19.22 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
The rate of college-level education in Bigfork is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.08% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Bigfork in 2022 was $28,116, which is low income relative to Minnesota, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $112,464 for a family of four. However, Bigfork contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Bigfork is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Bigfork home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bigfork residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Bigfork include German, English, Swedish, Norwegian, and French Canadian.
The most common language spoken in Bigfork is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
