Leeds, North Dakota.
Typical home $155,782 (+8.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$246 (+43%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $11,611 +8%
- $144,171$155,782 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $19,068 -11%
- $174,850$155,782 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.
- Leeds$818
- North Dakota$1,526
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Leeds, ND rose 8.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Leeds, Benson County, North Dakota
Leeds is a city of 442 people in Benson County. Unemployment in Benson County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Benson County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Leeds is a very small city in Benson County, North Dakota, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here are modestly priced, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for a rural area. Winters are long and hard, with January the coldest month and temperatures often well below freezing, while July brings warm, comfortable days. Rain and melted snow add up to a fairly dry year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and others in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in government, or in farming, forestry and mining. Across Benson County, the largest workplaces include Cankdeska Cikana Community College, Minnewaukan 5 Schools and FT Totten 30 Schools. Unemployment in the county is low and has eased a little over the past year, and the county has added jobs. Only a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. Lake Ibsen sits in or beside town, so the water is close at hand. A longer drive away are Devils Lake, a large lake, and Silver Lake National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area. Fort Totten State Historic Site, also a longer drive, is another protected area to visit.
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- 193households
- 7%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What people in Benson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Benson County had 2,019 jobs in 2025, 2.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 16° and lows near -3°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 55°. About 21 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Leeds weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Benson County
- Cankdeska Cikana Community CollegeTwo-year college61
- Minnewaukan 5 SchoolsSchool district52FTE
- Ft Totten 30 SchoolsSchool district35FTE
- Leeds 6 SchoolsSchool district31FTE
- Maddock 9 SchoolsSchool district30FTE
Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- HailRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Leeds’ 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 Benson County.
Leeds home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Leeds$155,782
- 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.
Zip codes with a Leeds address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Leeds — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.