Wilton, North Dakota.
Typical home $254,890 (+8.1% in a year). Bismarck, ND metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$696 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,094 +8%
- $235,796$254,890 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $61,073 +32%
- $193,817$254,890 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.
- Wilton$1,338
- North Dakota$1,526
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Wilton, ND rose 8.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wilton, Burleigh County, North Dakota
Wilton is a city of 718 people in Burleigh County. Unemployment in Burleigh County was 1.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Burleigh County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wilton is a very small city in Burleigh County, North Dakota, where residents tend to be older than in most of the country. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying well below freezing, while July brings the warmest weather, with comfortably warm afternoons. Homes here cost less than in many parts of the country, and few residents live below the poverty line.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, or in government. Many head into the wider Burleigh County area for their jobs, and the commute is a fairly long one. Across Burleigh County, some of the largest workplaces are Sanford Bismarck, Bismarck 1 Schools and Bismarck State College, and unemployment there is low and a little lower than a year ago.
Things to do. Lost Lake National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Fort Abraham Lincoln, another protected area, and to the Dakota Zoo. The North Dakota Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center, a museum, is also a longer drive away.
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- 292households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Burleigh County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Burleigh County had 58,393 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 19° and lows near 1°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 58°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wilton weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Burleigh County
- Sanford BismarckGeneral hospital2,815FTE
- Bismarck 1 SchoolsSchool district1,945FTE
- Doosan Bobcat BismarckManufacturing1,190
- St Alexius Medical CenterGeneral hospital844FTE
- Bismarck State CollegeUniversity or college636
- University of MaryUniversity or college546
- Missouri Slope Lutheran Care Center - WashingtonNursing homes432
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters403
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 93 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,580 people in all across the county; Wilton has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts 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
- HailVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wilton’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 Burleigh County and the Bismarck, ND metro.
Wilton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wilton$254,890
- 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.
Zip codes with a Wilton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wilton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.