Zahl, North Dakota.
Typical home $190,343 (+1.8% in a year). Williston, ND metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$57 (+6%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $3,429 +2%
- $186,915$190,343 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $66,741 -26%
- $257,084$190,343 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.
- Zahl$999
- North Dakota$1,526
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Zahl, ND rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Zahl, Williams County, North Dakota
The Census does not count Zahl on its own, so the figures here are Williams County's. Half the county's households earn more than $85,595 a year and half less; 9% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 53% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 47% are rented. Unemployment in Williams County was 2.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Williams County work in schools and health care, then farming.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Zahl is a small town in Williams County, in the northwestern part of North Dakota. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and renting is less common than in many parts of the country. Winters are long and cold, summers are warm, and snow is a regular part of the year.
Work. Residents of Williams County work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in farming, forestry and mining, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier, though the number of jobs eased slightly over the past year. Few residents work from home, and most people have a short commute.
Things to do. Lake Zahl National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is a short drive away. Writing Rock State Historical Site and Brush Lake State Park are both protected areas a longer drive away, and the Divide County Museum is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 15,154households
- 31.8median age
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Williams County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Williams County had 26,622 jobs in 2025, 1.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 17° and lows near -2°; warmest in August, with highs near 80° and lows near 52°. About 36 inches of snow and 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fortuna West weather station, 22 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Williams County
- Williston Basin 7 SchoolsSchool district716FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters473
- Hess Corporation - TiogaPetroleum, crude, production378
- Patterson-UTI Drilling CompanyDrilling gas and oil field wells on a contract basis318
- Mercy Medical CenterCritical access hospital288FTE
- Neset Consulting ServiceOil & gas field operations238
- Shanco Energy ServicesExcavation contractors228
- Bethel Lutheran Nursing and Rehabilitation CenterSkilled nursing facilities218
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 65 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,928 people in all. School districts come 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 wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Williams County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Williams County and the Williston, ND metro.
Zahl home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Zahl$190,343
- 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 Zahl address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Zahl — 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.