Epping, North Dakota.
Typical home $349,618 (+5.0% in a year). Williston, ND metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$838 (+84%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $16,611 +5%
- $333,007$349,618 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,117 +22%
- $287,501$349,618 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.
- Epping$1,835
- North Dakota$1,526
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Epping, ND rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Epping, Williams County, North Dakota
Epping is a city of 84 people in Williams County. Half its households earn more than $67,174 a year and half less, against $85,595 across Williams County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Williams County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Williams County work in schools and health care, then farming.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Epping is a very small city in Williams County, in the northwest of North Dakota. Winters here are long, cold and snowy, while summers are warm, with a modest amount of rain and melted snow over the year. Household incomes in the town sit below the county's, and few residents live below the poverty line.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in farming, forestry and mining, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Williams County, unemployment has eased over the past year, though the county has somewhat fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The Ray Opera House, a theatre, is a short drive away and is the nearest place for an evening out. Further off, Lewis and Clark State Park is a protected area, and Little Muddy Creek is a river, both a longer drive away.
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- 2%below the poverty line
What people in Williams County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Williams County had 26,622 jobs in 2025, 1.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 22° and lows near 1°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 56°. About 48 inches of snow and 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Williston Sloulin International Airport weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Williams County
- Williston Basin 7 SchoolsSchool district716FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters473
- Hess Corporation - TiogaPetroleum, crude, production378
- Patterson-UTI Drilling CompanyDrilling gas and oil field wells on a contract basis318
- Mercy Medical CenterCritical access hospital288FTE
- Neset Consulting ServiceOil & gas field operations238
- Shanco Energy ServicesExcavation contractors228
- Bethel Lutheran Nursing and Rehabilitation CenterSkilled nursing facilities218
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 65 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,928 people in all across the county; Epping has none of its own. 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Epping’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 Williams County and the Williston, ND metro.
Epping home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Epping$349,618
- 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.
Zip codes with a Epping address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Epping — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Epping
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 58849 | Ray | 1,101 | — | $262,408 |
| 58843 | Epping | 676 | — | $336,962 |