Wishek, North Dakota.
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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.
- North Dakota$1,526
- United States$1,922
Living in Wishek, McIntosh County, North Dakota
Wishek is a city of 864 people in McIntosh County. Half its households earn more than $69,904 a year and half less, against $64,419 across McIntosh County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in McIntosh County was 1.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wishek is a small city in McIntosh County, North Dakota, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run higher than across the county, and a smaller share of adults hold a four-year degree than in many other places. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and farming is also a major source of work, along with shops and banks. Among the largest workplaces in Wishek are Wishek Community Hospital, Wishek Living Center and Wishek 19 Schools. Very few people work from home, and unemployment across McIntosh County is low.
Things to do. Those who like open country have several protected areas to choose from, though each is a longer drive away. Beaver Lake State Park is the best known, and the Dakota Prairie Grasslands offer a large stretch of protected prairie. Springwater National Wildlife Refuge is another protected area within reach for a day out.
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- 371households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. McIntosh County had 993 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 22° and lows near 0°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 56°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wishek weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wishek
- Wishek Living CenterNursing care facilities65
- Wishek Community HospitalCritical access hospital53FTE
- Wishek 19 SchoolsSchool district38FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 143 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wishek’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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.
Wishek 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.
- Wishek9
Zip codes with a Wishek address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wishek — 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.