Dickinson, North Dakota.
Typical home $332,168 (+4.1% in a year), asking rent $1,244 (+1.8%). Dickinson, ND metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$802 (+85%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,072 +4%
- $319,096$332,168 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,455 +26%
- $263,713$332,168 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.
- Dickinson$1,743
- 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 Dickinson, ND rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Dickinson, ND rose 1.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Dickinson runs $1,101/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $2,345 a month against $1,244 rent: a $1,743 mortgage payment, plus $246 property tax and $356 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Dickinson
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,345
- Renting$1,244
- Mortgage only$1,743
Property tax · $246/mo 0.89% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Stark County, ND
Insurance & upkeep · $356/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Dickinson, Stark County, North Dakota
Dickinson is a city of 25,679 people in Stark County. Half its households earn more than $82,696 a year and half less, against $84,449 across Stark County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in Dickinson was 2.2% in August 2026, and Stark County had 0.2% more 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. Dickinson is a small city in Stark County in western North Dakota, and it is a young place, with residents who are younger than in most of the country. Household incomes sit a little below the county's, and fewer homes are lived in by their owners than across much of the country, so renting is part of the picture here. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a modest amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in farming, forestry and mining, with the building trades close behind. Dickinson 1 Schools, Walmart and Dickinson State University are among the largest workplaces in town. Unemployment is low and a little lower than a year ago, and the trip to work is short, so most people are not far from the office or job site.
Things to do. The Dickinson Museum Center and the Dakota Dinosaur Museum are both in or beside town, which makes them easy outings close to home. For a longer drive, the Knife River and the Green River offer time beside the water, and Initial Rock is an archaeological site that is also a longer drive away.
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- 10,486households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Stark County had 19,567 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 55°. About 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dickinson weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dickinson
- Dickinson 1 SchoolsSchool district582FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters347
- Dickinson State UniversityUniversity or college288
- Steffes Solutions LLC - DickinsonSkids, metal, manufacturing280
- TMI SystemsFurniture, institutional, manufacturing244
- ND Energy Services ManagementSalt water disposal systems, oil and gas field, on a contract basis236
- St. Benedict's Health CenterSkilled nursing facilities201
- St. Luke's HomeNursing homes199
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 29 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,065 people in all. School districts come 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
- LightningVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dickinson’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 Stark County and the Dickinson, ND metro.
Dickinson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dickinson$332,168
- 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 4 Dickinson listings, and the typical home goes pending in 20 days — 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.
- Dickinson27.49%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Dickinson20
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dickinson112
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Dickinson33
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Dickinson$336,876
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Dickinson97.85%
Zip codes with a Dickinson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dickinson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.