Cando, North Dakota.
Typical home $129,962 (+12.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$313 (+85%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,732 +13%
- $115,229$129,962 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $13,483 +12%
- $116,479$129,962 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.
- Cando$682
- North Dakota$1,526
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 32 years.
Typical home values in Cando, ND rose 12.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cando, Towner County, North Dakota
Cando is a city of 1,117 people in Towner County. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Towner County was 2.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cando is a small city on the northern plains, where most homes are lived in by their owners and a typical house costs less than in much of the country. Residents are somewhat older than in the country as a whole, and incomes in the county are a bit below what many American households see. Winters are among the coldest anywhere, with January days that stay well below freezing, while July turns pleasantly warm, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with farming, shops and the building trades close behind. Across Towner County, the biggest workplaces include Towner County Medical Center and North Star 10 Schools. Few people work from home, and the county has seen a slight dip in the number of jobs lately, though unemployment there remains low.
Things to do. The country around Cando suits people who like open land and water. Lake Alice National Wildlife Refuge and Snyder Lake National Wildlife Refuge are protected areas a longer drive away, good for watching birds and wildlife. Lake Ibsen, also a longer drive away, is a lake for anyone who wants a day by the water.
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- 486households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Towner County had 644 jobs in 2025, 2.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 16° and lows near -3°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 55°. About 21 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Leeds weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Towner County
- Towner County Medical CenterCritical access hospital59FTE
- North Star 10 SchoolsSchool district50FTE
- PipestoneAdministrative management and general management consulting services21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 21 people in all across the county; Cando has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cando’s census tracts, 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 Towner County.
Cando home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cando$129,962
- 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.
- Cando8
Zip codes with a Cando address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cando — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.