Berthold, North Dakota.
Typical home $310,920 (+1.5% in a year). Minot, ND metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$884 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,447 +1%
- $306,473$310,920 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $74,438 +31%
- $236,482$310,920 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.
- Berthold$1,632
- North Dakota$1,526
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Berthold, ND rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Berthold, Ward County, North Dakota
Berthold is a city of 490 people in Ward County. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Ward County was 2.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ward County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Berthold is a very small city, and its residents are older than in most American places. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and very few households live below the poverty line. Typical home values here are well above what many people expect for a small prairie town, though the town's own figures show a quiet, settled community.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, farming and the building trades also well represented. Across Ward County, the largest workplaces include Trinity Hospitals/St. Joseph's, Minot 1 Schools and Minot State University. Unemployment across the county is low and a little lower than a year ago, though the county has seen slightly fewer jobs than the year before, and a typical commute is a little longer than a short drive across town.
Things to do. Nature lovers can head to Upper Souris National Wildlife Refuge or Shell Lake National Wildlife Refuge, both protected areas a longer drive away, or to Rice Lake, also a longer drive away. For a day out with a different pace, Roosevelt Park Zoo and Scandinavian Heritage Park, a museum, are likewise a longer drive away. Winters are cold, with the deepest chill in January, and summers are warm, with a modest yearly total of rain and melted snow.
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- 18%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Ward County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ward County had 31,171 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 21° and lows near 2°; warmest in August, with highs near 84° and lows near 56°. About 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Foxholm North weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ward County
- Trinity Hospitals/st JoesGeneral hospital2,003FTE
- Trinity Health1,387
- Minot 1 SchoolsSchool district1,271FTE
- Minot State UniversityUniversity or college512
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters448
- Minot Vocational Adjustment WorkshopSocial service advocacy organizations386
- Hess Corporation - MinotPetroleum, crude, production250
- TargetDiscount department stores233
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 56 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,852 people in all across the county; Berthold has one of its own. 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Berthold’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Ward County and the Minot, ND metro.
Berthold home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Berthold$310,920
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Berthold6
Zip codes with a Berthold address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Berthold — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.