Killdeer, North Dakota.
Typical home $281,056 (+4.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$691 (+88%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,398 +5%
- $268,658$281,056 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,870 +18%
- $238,186$281,056 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.
- Killdeer$1,475
- North Dakota$1,526
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Killdeer, ND rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Killdeer, Dunn County, North Dakota
Killdeer is a city of 939 people in Dunn County. Half its households earn more than $89,750 a year and half less, against $97,689 across Dunn County. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Dunn County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 3.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Killdeer is a small city in Dunn County, North Dakota, home to a close-knit community of the kind found in small prairie towns. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little below the county's. Winters are long and cold, with a good deal of snow, while summers are warm and the year brings only modest rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, in the building trades and in shops. Across Dunn County, some of the largest workplaces are Killdeer 16 Schools, Devon Energy - Killdeer and Benz Oil Co. Jobs in the county have slipped a little from the year before, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. Lake Ilo National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is the Lynch Quarry Site, an archaeological site. For more time outdoors, Little Missouri State Park lies a longer drive away, and the Little Missouri River, farther out, is another place to spend a day.
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- 350households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 17%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dunn County had 1,999 jobs in 2025, 3.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 4°; warmest in August, with highs near 84° and lows near 52°. About 39 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Killdeer weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dunn County
- Killdeer 16 SchoolsSchool district108FTE
- Devon Energy - KilldeerPetroleum, crude, production105
- Mandaree 36 SchoolsSchool district58FTE
- Benz Oil CoBulk stations, petroleum41
- AmazonCouriers and express delivery services30
- Cowboy StationGasoline stations with convenience stores25
- Twin Buttes 37 SchoolsSchool district23FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 201 people in all across the county; Killdeer has one of its own. 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- HailVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Killdeer’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 Dunn County.
Killdeer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Killdeer$281,056
- 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.
- Killdeer8
Zip codes with a Killdeer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Killdeer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.