Menoken, North Dakota.
Typical home $398,119 (+5.8% in a year). Bismarck, ND metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$944 (+82%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $21,703 +6%
- $376,416$398,119 since Sep 2025
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.
- Menoken$2,090
- North Dakota$1,526
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Menoken, ND rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Menoken, Burleigh County, North Dakota
Menoken, in Burleigh County, had 78 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $116,250 a year and half less, against $86,851 across Burleigh County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 98% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 2% 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 people in Burleigh County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Menoken is a small community in Burleigh County, North Dakota, with a quiet rural character and a close-knit feel. Its residents live in a place where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes here are higher than across the county, which gives the community a settled, stable footing.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, while others work in shops, professional and business services, or government. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather arriving in January, and summers are warm, peaking in July. Snow and rain are part of the yearly rhythm, so people here plan for changing seasons.
Things to do. The Menoken Indian Village Site lies in or beside town and is an archaeological site worth seeing close to home. Fort Abraham Lincoln, a protected area a longer drive away, offers a fuller look at the region's history. Heart River, a river also a longer drive away, is a good place for a quiet outing.
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- 7%below the poverty line
What people in Burleigh County 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, 11 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; Menoken has one 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 wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Menoken’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 Burleigh County and the Bismarck, ND metro.
Menoken home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Menoken$398,119
- 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 Menoken address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Menoken — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.