Lincoln, North Dakota.
Typical home $316,747 (+3.5% in a year). Bismarck, ND metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$754 (+83%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,760 +4%
- $305,987$316,747 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,311 +21%
- $262,435$316,747 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.
- Lincoln$1,663
- North Dakota$1,526
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Lincoln, ND rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lincoln, Burleigh County, North Dakota
Lincoln is a city of 4,257 people in Burleigh County. Half its households earn more than $87,652 a year and half less, against $86,851 across Burleigh County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Burleigh 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lincoln is a small city just outside Bismarck, and nearly everyone here owns the home they live in. Residents are younger than in most places, incomes run a little above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are cold, with January highs well below freezing and lows near zero, while July brings warm days, and the year's rain and melted snow add up to a modest total.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. Across Burleigh County, some of the largest workplaces are Sanford Bismarck, Bismarck 1 Schools and Doosan Bobcat Bismarck. Unemployment in the county is low and has eased a little over the past year, and most people drive a moderate distance to work rather than working from home.
Things to do. Fort Abraham Lincoln is a protected area a short drive away, and the Heart River runs close by for time on the water. The Dakota Zoo is also a short drive away, and in winter the Huff Hills ski area is nearby. Those who like history can visit the Bismarck Air Museum, also a short drive from town.
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- 1,613households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Burleigh County had 58,393 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 23° and lows near 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 58°. About 19 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bismarck Weather Office weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Burleigh County
- Sanford BismarckGeneral hospital2,815FTE
- Bismarck 1 SchoolsSchool district1,945FTE
- Doosan Bobcat BismarckManufacturing1,190
- St Alexius Medical CenterGeneral hospital844FTE
- Bismarck State CollegeUniversity or college636
- University of MaryUniversity or college546
- Missouri Slope Lutheran Care Center - WashingtonNursing homes432
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters403
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 93 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,580 people in all across the county; Lincoln has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lincoln’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 Burleigh County and the Bismarck, ND metro.
Lincoln home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lincoln$316,747
- 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.
- Lincoln12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lincoln7
Zip codes with a Lincoln address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lincoln — 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.