Richardton, North Dakota.
Typical home $254,431 (+5.1% in a year). Dickinson, ND metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$679 (+103%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,356 +5%
- $242,075$254,431 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,666 +33%
- $191,765$254,431 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.
- Richardton$1,335
- North Dakota$1,526
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Richardton, ND rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Richardton, Stark County, North Dakota
Richardton is a city of 692 people in Stark County. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Stark County was 2.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Stark County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Richardton is a small western North Dakota city where nearly everyone knows their neighbors. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a smaller share of residents live in poverty than is true in many places. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn warm in July and the year brings a modest amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by farming, forestry and mining, then shops and the building trades. Many commute some distance to jobs across Stark County, where the largest workplaces include Dickinson 1 Schools, Killdeer Mountain Manufacturing and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is low and has eased a little over the past year.
Things to do. For a day out, the Dickinson Museum Center and the Dakota Dinosaur Museum are both museums a longer drive away, and the Dakota Dinosaur Museum is a good fit for visitors curious about the region's prehistoric past. The Green River, also a longer drive away, offers a quieter stretch of water to explore.
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- 333households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Stark County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Stark County had 19,567 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 58°. About 33 inches of snow and 16 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Richardton Abbey weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Stark County
- Dickinson 1 SchoolsSchool district582FTE
- Killdeer Mountain ManufacturingHarness assemblies for electronic use manufacturing359
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters347
- Dickinson State UniversityUniversity or college288
- Steffes Solutions LLC - DickinsonSkids, metal, manufacturing280
- TMI SystemsFurniture, institutional, manufacturing244
- Baker BoyCommercial bakeries241
- ND Energy Services ManagementSalt water disposal systems, oil and gas field, on a contract basis236
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 50 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,534 people in all across the county; Richardton has none of its own. School districts come 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
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Richardton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Stark County and the Dickinson, ND metro.
Richardton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Richardton$254,431
- 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.
- Richardton7
Zip codes with a Richardton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Richardton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.