Carrington, North Dakota.
Typical home $203,887 (+7.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$472 (+79%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,451 +7%
- $190,436$203,887 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $27,231 +15%
- $176,656$203,887 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.
- Carrington$1,070
- North Dakota$1,526
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Carrington, ND rose 7.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Carrington, Foster County, North Dakota
Carrington is a city of 2,080 people in Foster County. Half its households earn more than $77,171 a year and half less, against $87,831 across Foster County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Foster County was 1.7% in August 2026, and the county had 3.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Carrington is a small city in Foster County, North Dakota, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Residents are somewhat older than in the average American town, and household incomes run below the county's. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and most adults get through the day without much of a commute. Winters are very cold, with January the coldest month and nights dropping to around freezing at the least, while summers are pleasantly warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in Carrington are Carrington 49 Schools, Dakota Central Telecommunications and Carrington Health Center. Unemployment across Foster County is low, though the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. The closest outdoor draws are protected lands and lakes, all a longer drive away. Arrowwood National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area, and Arrowwood Wetland Management District is another, both suited to birdwatching and quiet walks. Prairie Lake is a lake for anyone who likes time by the water.
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- 971households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 11 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Foster County had 1,487 jobs in 2025, 3.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 17° and lows near 0°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 57°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Carrington weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Carrington
- Carrington 49 SchoolsSchool district75FTE
- Dakota Central TelecommunicationsInternet service providers, using own operated wired telecommunications infrastructure48
- Carrington Health CenterCritical access hospital45FTE
- Northern Plains ElectricDistribution of electric power40
- Leevers Foods CarringtonFood stores27
- Oscar Renda ContractingWater main and line construction23
- Running SupplyRetail21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 159 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- HailVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Carrington’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 Foster County.
Carrington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Carrington$203,887
- North Dakota$290,657
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
- Carrington7
Zip codes with a Carrington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Carrington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.