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.
For a small city, Bigfork has a lot of people who use public transit to get to work, and those that do mostly ride the bus. This suggests that a real need for low-cost transportation in Bigfork exists, and local transit is helping to meet that need.
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 10.82% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Bigfork in 2018 was $28,997, 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 $115,988 for a family of four. However, Bigfork contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
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.
