Baldwin, North Dakota.
Typical home $510,291 (+7.8% in a year). Bismarck, ND metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,140 (+74%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $37,104 +8%
- $473,188$510,291 since Sep 2025
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.
- Baldwin$2,678
- North Dakota$1,526
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Baldwin, ND rose 7.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Baldwin, Burleigh County, North Dakota
The Census does not count Baldwin on its own, so the figures here are Burleigh County's. Half the county's households earn more than $86,851 a year and half less; 8% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 71% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Burleigh County was 1.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Burleigh County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Baldwin is a small community in Burleigh County, North Dakota, and the figures on this page are for the whole county. Winters here are bitterly cold, with the coldest weather in January, and summers are warm, with July the warmest month. Most homes across Burleigh County are lived in by their owners, and many adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, or in government. Unemployment across Burleigh County has eased recently, and the number of jobs there has crept upward. Most commutes are fairly short, and only a minority of workers do their jobs from home.
Things to do. Fort Abraham Lincoln, a protected area, is one of the best known places within reach and lies a longer drive away. The Dakota Zoo, a zoo, is also a longer drive away, and the Heart River, a river, offers another option a longer drive away.
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- 41,269households
- 38.5median age
- 39%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Burleigh County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Burleigh County had 58,393 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 19° and lows near 1°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 58°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wilton weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Burleigh County
- Sanford BismarckGeneral hospital2,815FTE
- Bismarck 1 SchoolsSchool district1,945FTE
- Doosan Bobcat BismarckManufacturing1,190
- St Alexius Medical CenterGeneral hospital844FTE
- Bismarck State CollegeUniversity or college636
- University of MaryUniversity or college546
- Missouri Slope Lutheran Care Center - WashingtonNursing homes432
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters403
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 93 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,580 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Burleigh County, 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 Burleigh County and the Bismarck, ND metro.
Baldwin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Baldwin$510,291
- North Dakota$290,657
- 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 Baldwin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Baldwin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.