Bigfork’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Bigfork has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Bigfork has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Bigfork than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Bigfork may be for you.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Bigfork spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 19.22 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.
The percentage of people in Bigfork with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.08% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or 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.
