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Rolette, North Dakota.

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What it costs per month · Rolette $1,526/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$698 (+84%) since Jan 2020.

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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 North Dakota $1,526 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • North Dakota$1,526
  • United States$1,922

Living in Rolette, Rolette County, North Dakota

Rolette is a city of 484 people in Rolette County. Unemployment in Rolette County was 6.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Rolette County work in schools and health care, then government.

People 484 in the 2020 census
Household income Too few homes in Rolette for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 6.5% Rolette County, August 2026; 7.2% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Rolette for the Census survey to measure.

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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rolette is a very small city in north-central North Dakota, close to the Canadian border, and most people here know one another. Winters are long and hard, with January the coldest month and the lows well below zero, while July brings warm days. Rain and melted snow add up to a modest amount over the year, which is typical of the northern plains.

Work. People in town and across Rolette County mostly work in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, in shops and in the building trades. Among the largest workplaces across the county are Belcourt 7 Schools, Quentin N Burdick Memorial Hospital and the Indian Health Service. Incomes in the county are modest, and joblessness has eased a little since this time last year.

Things to do. The best known place nearby is the International Peace Garden, a botanical garden on the border, a longer drive away. Boundary Lake, also a longer drive away, is a lake for fishing and time on the water. Lords Lake National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area a longer drive away, is a quiet spot for watching birds and wildlife.

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  • 5%below the poverty line

What people in Rolette County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care42%
  • Government10%
  • Shops (retail)9%
  • Building trades7%
  • Professional and business services7%
  • Banks, insurance and property6%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rolette County had 4,666 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 13° and -8°; warmest in July, 78° and 54° 0° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 13° -8° F M A M J J 78° 54° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 13° and -8°; warmest in July, 78° and 54° 0° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 13° -8° F M A M J J 78° 54° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 13° and lows near -8°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 54°. About 20 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

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

Largest workplaces in Rolette County

  1. Belcourt 7 SchoolsSchool district345FTE
  2. Quentin N Burdick Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital342FTE
  3. Indian Health ServiceFederal government · Department of Health and Human Services270
  4. Bureau of Indian EducationFederal government · Department of the Interior221
  5. Turtle Mountain Community CollegeUniversity or college140
  6. Presentation Medical CenterCritical access hospital136FTE
  7. Dunseith 1 SchoolsSchool district112FTE
  8. St John 3 SchoolsSchool district86FTE

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 174 people in all across the county; Rolette 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), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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. Ice stormsVery high
  4. WildfireRelatively high
  5. Strong windRelatively high
  6. HailRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rolette’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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.

Rolette home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

Not enough data to draw this yet.

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 Rolette address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rolette — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.

Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.