Mandan, North Dakota.
Typical home $348,664 (+5.1% in a year), asking rent $1,428 (+5.5%). Bismarck, ND metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$931 (+104%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,774 +5%
- $331,891$348,664 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $73,972 +27%
- $274,692$348,664 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.
- Mandan$1,830
- 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 Mandan, ND rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Mandan, ND rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Mandan runs $1,071/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,076 in Jun 2024.
That is $2,499 a month against $1,428 rent: a $1,830 mortgage payment, plus $296 property tax and $373 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Mandan
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,499
- Renting$1,428
- Mortgage only$1,830
Property tax · $296/mo 1.02% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Morton County, ND
Insurance & upkeep · $373/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Mandan, Morton County, North Dakota
Mandan is a city of 24,206 people in Morton County. Half its households earn more than $71,780 a year and half less, against $79,382 across Morton County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Morton County was 2.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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. Mandan is a city in Morton County, on the west bank of the Missouri River across from Bismarck. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a typical home costs more than a typical month's rent would suggest for anyone just starting out. Households earn less than across the county as a whole, and the population is somewhat younger than in many American towns. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July, while the year brings a modest amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, shops, and professional and business services. The largest workplaces in Mandan include Mandan 1 Schools, Marathon Petroleum Company and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is low and slightly lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs has barely changed. Commutes are short, and a modest share of people work from home.
Things to do. The Heart River and Fort Abraham Lincoln, a protected area, are both a short drive away and suit a walk or an afternoon outdoors. Dakota Zoo is also a short drive away, and the Bismarck Air Museum is close by for anyone who likes aircraft. The Chief Looking's Village site, an archaeological site, lies in or beside town.
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- 10,465households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Morton County had 12,316 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 22° and lows near 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 58°. About 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mandan Experiment Station weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mandan
- Mandan 1 SchoolsSchool district662FTE
- Marathon Petroleum CompanyPetroleum refineries358
- HIT623210 residential intellectual and developmental disability facilities300
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters267
- Good Samaritan Society-Miller PointeSkilled nursing facilities190
- Edgewood MandanAssisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities109
- Family Wellness813410 civic and social organizations77
- Vibra Hospital of Central Dakotas LLong-term care hospital67FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,766 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
- HailVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mandan’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 Morton County and the Bismarck, ND metro.
Mandan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mandan$348,664
- North Dakota$290,657
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Mandan listings, and the typical home goes pending in 18 days — the market is cooling.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Mandan27.57%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Mandan18
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mandan98
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mandan33
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Mandan$355,369
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Mandan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mandan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.