Mapleton, North Dakota.
Typical home $346,829 (+3.9% in a year). Fargo, ND-MN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$815 (+81%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,973 +4%
- $333,856$346,829 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,199 +11%
- $312,630$346,829 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.
- Mapleton$1,820
- North Dakota$1,526
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 33 years.
Typical home values in Mapleton, ND rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mapleton, Cass County, North Dakota
Mapleton is a city of 1,320 people in Cass County. Half its households earn more than $119,432 a year and half less, against $75,555 across Cass County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mapleton is a small city in Cass County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. The population is young for a place like this, with a median age well below that of much of the country, and household incomes run well above the county's. Very few residents live below the poverty line, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Some of the largest workplaces in Mapleton are Holland Enterprises, a long-distance trucking company, Horsch, which makes farm planting machines, and the Mapleton 7 Schools district. Unemployment in Cass County is low, a little lower than a year ago, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. For a short outing, Red River Zoo and Bonanzaville, USA, a museum, are both a short drive away, as is the Maple River. A longer drive brings the Fargodome, a stadium, and the Rourke Art Museum. Winters are cold and snowy, so most outings are easiest in the warm months, when July highs are comfortable.
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- 463households
- 44%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 14%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 -1°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 59°. About 37 inches of snow and 24 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Casselton Agronomy Farm weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mapleton
- Holland EnterprisesGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload377
- Midwest Ironworks92
- HorschPlanting machines, farm-type, manufacturing75
- Mapleton 7 SchoolsSchool district44FTE
- Integrity Steel SupplyFabricated structural metal manufacturing33
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 577 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mapleton’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.
Mapleton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mapleton$346,829
- 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.
- Mapleton6
Zip codes with a Mapleton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mapleton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.