Hillsboro, North Dakota.
Typical home $259,840 (+7.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$495 (+57%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,773 +8%
- $241,067$259,840 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $15,031 -5%
- $274,871$259,840 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.
- Hillsboro$1,364
- North Dakota$1,526
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Hillsboro, ND rose 7.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hillsboro, Traill County, North Dakota
Hillsboro is a city of 1,649 people in Traill County. Half its households earn more than $81,483 a year and half less, against $87,004 across Traill County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Traill County was 2.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hillsboro is a small city in Traill County, North Dakota, where most homes are lived in by their owners and the population is a little older than in many American towns. Incomes run somewhat below the county's, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers are warm, and the year brings a modest amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and government also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in Hillsboro are Hillsboro 9 Schools, Sanford Hillsboro, a critical access hospital, and Valley Plains Equipment, a wholesaler of tractors and farm and garden goods. The trip to work is short for most people, and unemployment in Traill County has eased a little over the past year.
Things to do. The area around Hillsboro is laced with rivers, and several of them can be reached by a longer drive. The Sand Hill River and the Wild Rice River are the best known of these, and the Goose River is another. They suit anyone who likes time outdoors beside quiet water.
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- 743households
- 37%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 15 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Traill County had 3,556 jobs in 2025, 0.2% 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 61°. About 22 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hillsboro North weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hillsboro
- Hillsboro 9 SchoolsSchool district74FTE
- Sanford HillsboroCritical access hospital35FTE
- Valley Plains EquipmentTractors, farm and garden, merchant wholesalers29
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 171 people in all. 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hillsboro’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. 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 Traill County.
Hillsboro home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hillsboro$259,840
- 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.
- Hillsboro11
Zip codes with a Hillsboro address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hillsboro — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.