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New Town, North Dakota.

A city in Mountrail County. Zillow publishes no home prices for it: see Mountrail County’s.

Living in New Town, Mountrail County, North Dakota

New Town is a city of 2,764 people in Mountrail County. 32% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 68% are rented. Unemployment in Mountrail County was 2.4% 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 restaurants and hotels.

People 2,764 in the 2020 census; median age 28.2
Household income Too few homes in New Town for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 2.4% Mountrail County, August 2026; 2.6% a year before
Homes 32% lived in by their owners; 68% rented
  • 980households
  • 21%of adults have a degree
  • 24%below the poverty line
  • 14 mintypical commute
  • 1%work from home

What residents work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care30%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment17%
  • Professional and business services14%
  • Shops (retail)10%
  • Government8%
  • Banks, insurance and property7%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mountrail County had 5,391 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 22° and 4°; warmest in August, 83° and 54° 0° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 22° 4° F M A M J J A 83° 54° S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 22° and 4°; warmest in August, 83° and 54° 0° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 22° 4° F M A M J J A 83° 54° S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 22° and lows near 4°; warmest in August, with highs near 83° and lows near 54°. About 35 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Keene 3S weather station, 21 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Mountrail County

  1. New Town 1 SchoolsSchool district183FTE
  2. United Quality CooperativeConvenience food with gasoline stations157
  3. Stanley 2 SchoolsSchool district119FTE
  4. Mountrail County Medical CenterCritical access hospital109FTE
  5. Mongoose Trucking And HotshotGeneral freight trucking, local88
  6. Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish CollegeUniversity or college74
  7. Running HorseGeneral freight trucking, local65
  8. Coborn's59

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 457 people in all across the county; New Town has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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

  1. Winter weatherVery high
  2. Cold wavesVery high
  3. HailRelatively high
  4. Ice stormsRelatively high
  5. Strong windRelatively high
  6. TornadoesRelatively high

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in New Town’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 Mountrail County.