Hettinger, North Dakota.
Typical home $141,271 (+4.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$322 (+77%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $5,877 +4%
- $135,394$141,271 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $11,387 +9%
- $129,884$141,271 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.
- Hettinger$741
- North Dakota$1,526
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 41 years.
Typical home values in Hettinger, ND rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hettinger, Adams County, North Dakota
Hettinger is a city of 1,074 people in Adams County. Half its households earn more than $62,750 a year and half less, against $62,500 across Adams County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 63% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 37% are rented. Unemployment in Adams County was 1.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hettinger is a small city in Adams County, in the southwest corner of North Dakota, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes are close to the county's, and the typical home value is modest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fairly dry year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, the building trades, and farming, forestry and mining also well represented. Across Adams County, the biggest workplaces are West River Regional Medical Center, a critical access hospital, and the local school district. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Shadehill Reservoir and the Shadehill Recreation Area are a longer drive away and offer water and open shoreline. Grand River National Grassland, also a longer drive away, is protected prairie, and Lemmon Petrified Park, a museum, is a longer drive away as well.
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- 632households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 14 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Adams County had 849 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 5°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 54°. About 17 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hettinger Experiment Station weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Adams County
- West River Regional Medical CenterCritical access hospital136FTE
- Hettinger 13 SchoolsSchool district59FTE
Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hettinger’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 Adams County.
Hettinger home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hettinger$141,271
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hettinger11
Zip codes with a Hettinger address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hettinger — 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.