Stanley, North Dakota.
Typical home $205,803 (-2.9% in a year), asking rent $1,105 .
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$456 (+73%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,081 -3%
- $211,884$205,803 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $14,613 +8%
- $191,190$205,803 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.
- Stanley$1,080
- North Dakota$1,526
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 47 years.
Typical home values in Stanley, ND fell 2.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stanley, Mountrail County, North Dakota
Stanley is a city of 2,321 people in Mountrail County. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% 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 shops, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stanley is a small city in Mountrail County, North Dakota, with a younger population than much of the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though renters make up a real part of the town. Winters are long, cold and snowy, and summers are warm.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in farming, forestry and mining, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in professional and business services. Across Mountrail County, some of the largest employers are the school districts, United Quality Cooperative and Mountrail County Medical Center. Getting to work usually takes a short drive, and unemployment in the county is low.
Things to do. The nearest wild country is a longer drive away, and it is mostly water and prairie. The White Earth River is the best known, followed by Lostwood National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area for birds and wildlife. Shell Lake National Wildlife Refuge is another protected area, also a longer drive away.
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- 938households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
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
Coldest in January, with highs near 17° and lows near -1°; warmest in August, with highs near 80° and lows near 52°. About 47 inches of snow and 19 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Stanley Nnw weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mountrail County
- New Town 1 SchoolsSchool district183FTE
- United Quality CooperativeConvenience food with gasoline stations157
- Stanley 2 SchoolsSchool district119FTE
- Mountrail County Medical CenterCritical access hospital109FTE
- Mongoose Trucking And HotshotGeneral freight trucking, local88
- Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish CollegeUniversity or college74
- Running HorseGeneral freight trucking, local65
- 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; Stanley has two 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- HailVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Stanley’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. More on Mountrail County.
Stanley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stanley$205,803
- North Dakota$290,657
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Stanley listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Stanley18.89%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Stanley21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Stanley6
Zip codes with a Stanley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stanley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.