Kindred, North Dakota.
Typical home $420,378 (+8.0% in a year). Fargo, ND-MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,136 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $31,221 +8%
- $389,156$420,378 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $85,541 +26%
- $334,837$420,378 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.
- Kindred$2,206
- North Dakota$1,526
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Kindred, ND rose 8.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kindred, Cass County, North Dakota
Kindred is a city of 889 people in Cass County. Half its households earn more than $105,104 a year and half less, against $75,555 across Cass County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Cass County was 2.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kindred is a small city in Cass County, North Dakota, and most of the homes there are lived in by their owners, a larger share than is typical across the country. Household incomes run well above the county's, and relatively few people live below the poverty line. A good number of adults hold a four-year degree, and typical home values are on the high side.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with building trades, professional and business services, and shops also employing many. The largest workplaces in Kindred are Kindred 2 Schools, CHS, a grain and field bean merchant, and RDO Equipment Company, which repairs and maintains commercial and industrial machinery. Unemployment across Cass County is low and a little lower than a year earlier, and the commute is an ordinary one for the region, with some people working from home.
Things to do. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month, while summers are warm, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow. Within a longer drive, the Fargodome is a large stadium, the Red River Zoo is a zoo, and the Plains Art Museum is a museum. The Sheyenne National Grassland, a protected area of open prairie, is also a longer drive away.
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- 345households
- 44%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cass County had 128,690 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 17° and lows near -2°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 60°. About 24 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fargo 3S weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kindred
- Kindred 2 SchoolsSchool district130FTE
- CHSGrain and field bean merchant wholesalers46
- RDO Equipment CompanyCommercial and industrial machinery repair and maintenance25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 71 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kindred’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 Cass County and the Fargo, ND-MN metro.
Kindred home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kindred$420,378
- 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.
- Kindred8
Zip codes with a Kindred address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kindred — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.