Gwinner, North Dakota.
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to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$698 (+84%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- North Dakota$1,526
- United States$1,922
Living in Gwinner, Sargent County, North Dakota
Gwinner is a city of 924 people in Sargent County. Half its households earn more than $64,250 a year and half less, against $77,946 across Sargent County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 51% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 49% are rented. Unemployment in Sargent County was 2.0% in August 2026, and the county had 5.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gwinner is a small city in Sargent County, North Dakota, with a younger population than is typical across much of the country. Incomes are below the county's, and fewer homes are lived in by their owners than you might expect for a town this size. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow fall at a moderate level through the year.
Work. Many residents work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades and in shops. Among the largest workplaces in Gwinner are Doosan Bobcat Gwinner, North Sargent 3 Schools and Ray-Mac. Commutes are very short, and few people work from home. Unemployment across the county is lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Storm Lake National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Tewaukon National Wildlife Refuge, another protected area, and to Sheyenne National Grassland, a larger stretch of protected prairie.
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- 409households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 8 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sargent County had 2,608 jobs in 2025, 5.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 18° and lows near -1°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 59°. About 23 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Forman Sse weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gwinner
- Doosan Bobcat GwinnerManufacturing1,493
- North Sargent 3 SchoolsSchool district43FTE
- Ray-MacStampings, metal, unfinished, manufacturing39
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,532 people in all. School districts come 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
- Strong windVery high
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gwinner’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 Sargent County.
Gwinner home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
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Zip codes with a Gwinner address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gwinner — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.