Devils Lake, North Dakota.
Typical home $242,431 (+7.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$594 (+88%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,677 +7%
- $225,754$242,431 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,308 +19%
- $204,123$242,431 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.
- Devils Lake$1,272
- North Dakota$1,526
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Devils Lake, ND rose 7.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Devils Lake, Ramsey County, North Dakota
Devils Lake is a city of 7,192 people in Ramsey County. Half its households earn more than $43,220 a year and half less, against $61,006 across Ramsey County; 22% of its people live below the poverty line. 39% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 61% are rented. Unemployment in Ramsey County was 1.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Devils Lake is a small city in eastern North Dakota, and it is built around the lake that gives it its name. Incomes here run below the county's, and fewer households own their homes than is usual across the county, so renting is common. Winters are long and very cold, summers are mild to warm, and the year brings a modest amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, in restaurants and hotels, and in manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in town are Devils Lake 1 Schools, Lake Region State College and Mercy Hospital. Most people have a short trip to work, and few work from home.
Things to do. Devils Lake itself, a lake a short drive away, is the obvious place to start, and Court Lake, another lake a short drive away, is close by too. The Devils Lake Wetland Management District, a protected area in or beside town, is good for time outdoors. Fort Totten State Historic Site, a protected area a longer drive away, rewards a day trip.
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- 3,747households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 12 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ramsey County had 5,524 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 16° and lows near -2°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 59°. About 20 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Devils Lake Kdlr weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Devils Lake
- Devils Lake 1 SchoolsSchool district262FTE
- Eventide HeartlandService-nursing home136
- Lake Region State CollegeTwo-year college119
- Mercy HospitalCritical access hospital92FTE
- Summers ManufacturingWeeding machines, farm-type, manufacturing60
- Leevers Foods Devils LakeFood stores51
- Sevita 475114_DEVILSVocational rehabilitation services50
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services31
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 459 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Devils Lake’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 Ramsey County.
Devils Lake home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Devils Lake$242,431
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Devils Lake listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Devils Lake20.80%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Devils Lake45
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Devils Lake10
Zip codes with a Devils Lake address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Devils Lake — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.