Belfield, North Dakota.
Typical home $249,078 (+4.7% in a year). Dickinson, ND metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$596 (+84%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,155 +5%
- $237,922$249,078 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,909 +25%
- $199,169$249,078 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.
- Belfield$1,307
- North Dakota$1,526
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Belfield, ND rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Belfield, Billings County, North Dakota
Belfield is a city of 996 people in Billings County. Unemployment in Billings County was 1.9% in August 2026, and the county had 11.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Belfield is a very small city in the badlands country of western North Dakota, where the winters are cold and the summers warm. Cold spells in January run hard, with highs well below freezing, and August afternoons are pleasantly warm. Rain and melted snow add up to a fairly dry year, as is usual for the northern plains. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than is typical across the country, and a good share of households live below the poverty line.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, the building trades, and restaurants and hotels. Across Billings County, some of the largest workplaces are Watco Transloading, Belfield 13 Schools and the National Park Service. Unemployment in the county is low and slightly lower than a year ago, and the county has gained jobs over the past year. A small share of residents work from home.
Things to do. Theodore Roosevelt National Park is the best known place nearby, a national park a longer drive away. The Little Missouri National Grassland, a protected area of open prairie and badlands, is also a longer drive away. For a quieter day, the Knife River is a river within a longer drive, and the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 342households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Billings County had 745 jobs in 2025, 11.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 9°; warmest in August, with highs near 82° and lows near 56°. About 17 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Medora East weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Billings County
- Watco TransloadingLoading and unloading services at rail terminals50
- Belfield 13 SchoolsSchool district45FTE
- National Park ServiceFederal government · Department of the Interior36
- Billings CO 1 SchoolsSchool district35FTE
- Petro-HuntIndustrial gas manufacturing20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 70 people in all across the county; Belfield has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Belfield’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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.
Belfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Belfield$249,078
- 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 Belfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Belfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.