Manvel, North Dakota.
Typical home $288,055 (+14.2% in a year). Grand Forks, ND-MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$562 (+59%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $35,785 +14%
- $252,270$288,055 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $7,251 -2%
- $295,306$288,055 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.
- Manvel$1,512
- North Dakota$1,526
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Manvel, ND rose 14.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Manvel, Grand Forks County, North Dakota
Manvel is a city of 377 people in Grand Forks County. Half its households earn more than $91,719 a year and half less, against $68,075 across Grand Forks County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Grand Forks County was 1.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Manvel is a very small city in Grand Forks County, North Dakota, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Household incomes run well above the county's, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are long and hard, with January highs well below freezing and lows below zero, and a good deal of snow through the season. Summers are pleasantly warm, with July the warmest month, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, professional and business services, and the building trades also common. Across Grand Forks County, the largest workplaces include Altru Health System-altru Hospital, the University of North Dakota and Grand Forks 1 Schools. Unemployment in the county is low and a little lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year. Commutes are fairly short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Close to town, Kellys Slough National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area a short drive away, and the Turtle River is a river a short drive away as well. A longer drive brings you to Turtle River State Park, a protected area good for a day outdoors. The North Dakota Museum of Art, also a longer drive away, offers an indoor outing when the weather turns.
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- 143households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grand Forks County had 41,078 jobs in 2025, 0.9% 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 81° and lows near 57°. About 48 inches of snow and 22 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Grand Forks International Airport weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grand Forks County
- Altru Health System-altru HospitalGeneral hospital3,261FTE
- University of North DakotaUniversity or college2,953
- Grand Forks 1 SchoolsSchool district1,346FTE
- LM Wind Power : Grand ForksGas turbine generator set units manufacturing569
- Development HomesGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability384
- TargetDiscount department stores382
- JR Simplot CoFrozen fruit, juice and vegetable manufacturing381
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters347
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 93 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 11,266 people in all across the county; Manvel has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges 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
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Manvel’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 Grand Forks County and the Grand Forks, ND-MN metro.
Manvel home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Manvel$288,055
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Manvel address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Manvel — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.