Westhope, North Dakota.
Typical home $118,411 (-9.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$31 (+5%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $12,917 -10%
- $131,328$118,411 since Jul 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.
- Westhope$601
- North Dakota$1,526
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Westhope, ND fell 9.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Westhope, Bottineau County, North Dakota
Westhope is a city of 374 people in Bottineau County. Half its households earn more than $69,479 a year and half less, against $85,000 across Bottineau County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Bottineau County was 2.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bottineau 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Westhope is a very small city in Bottineau County, North Dakota, where most homes are lived in by their owners and typical home values are modest. Household incomes in town are below the county's, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than not. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month and highs well below freezing, while July brings warm days, and the year's moisture is on the light side, falling as both rain and snow.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by farming, forestry and mining, shops and the building trades. Very few people work from home. Across Bottineau County, some of the largest workplaces are Dakota College at Bottineau, Walmart and Bottineau 1 Schools. Unemployment in the county is low and has eased from a year earlier, and the county has added a few more jobs than the year before.
Things to do. For time outdoors, the Antler River and the J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge are both a longer drive away, the first a river and the second a protected area. Bottineau Winter Park, a ski area, is also a longer drive away and suits the cold months.
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- 149households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 3%work from home
What people in Bottineau County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bottineau County had 2,543 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 16° and lows near -2°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 56°. About 19 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Westhope weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bottineau County
- Dakota College at BottineauTwo-year college187
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters163
- Bottineau 1 SchoolsSchool district108FTE
- St Andrews Health CenterCritical access hospital82FTE
- Good Samaritan Society/Sanford HealthSkilled nursing facilities60
- Sund Manufacturing CoBits, rock drill, oil and gas field-type, manufacturing48
- Westhope 17 SchoolsSchool district32FTE
- Newburg-united 54 SchoolsSchool district26FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 397 people in all across the county; Westhope has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Westhope’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 Bottineau County.
Westhope home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Westhope$118,411
- North Dakota$289,398
- United States$365,413
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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Westhope address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Westhope — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.