Fairmount, North Dakota.
Typical home $152,435 (+14.2% in a year). Wahpeton, ND-MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$7 (+1%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $18,902 +14%
- $133,533$152,435 since Sep 2025
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.
- Fairmount$800
- North Dakota$1,526
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Fairmount, ND rose 14.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fairmount, Richland County, North Dakota
Fairmount is a city of 343 people in Richland County. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Richland County was 2.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Richland County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fairmount is a very small city, and nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. Few residents have a four-year degree, and most households live comfortably within the town's quiet routines. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm in July and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, farming and shops. Across Richland County, some of the largest workplaces are Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative, North Dakota State College of Science and ContiTech USA. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The closest outing is Rabbit River, a river a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Fort Abercrombie, a fort, and to Lake Traverse, a reservoir. Chahinkapa Zoo, also a longer drive away, is a zoo.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Richland County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Richland County had 7,877 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 20° and lows near 1°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 61°. About 36 inches of snow and 24 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the White Rock Dam weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Richland County
- Minn-Dak Farmers CooperativeSugar, granulated, made from sugar beets500
- North Dakota State College of ScienceTwo-year college452
- CDI ServicesNozzles, aerosol spray, plastics, manufacturing305
- ContiTech USARubber goods, mechanical, manufacturing230
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters207
- Wahpeton 37 SchoolsSchool district165FTE
- Wahpeton Cargill Corn MillingSyrup, corn, made by wet milling130
- BenedictineSkilled nursing facilities116
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,259 people in all across the county; Fairmount has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fairmount’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 Richland County and the Wahpeton, ND-MN metro.
Fairmount home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fairmount$152,435
- 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 Fairmount address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fairmount — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.