A typical Ashley home is worth roughly $59,000
Builders were permitted 1 new home in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Ashley?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 1.4 years of income
Less than across North Dakota (3.3 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Ashley home, with $99K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $930 a month here, $550 more than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Ashley’s typical property tax (1.35% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
73% of Ashley households own their home
Half of Ashley’s homes were built before 1953.
North Dakota: 63% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
A two-bedroom rents for about $930
Renters already here pay a median of $711, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Dickey County, ND): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
1 new home permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 1 new home in Ashley in 2025. Over the past 10 years, Ashley has permitted 2 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Ashley's population fell by 136 even though 1 new home was permitted. Homes are holding fewer people: households are getting smaller, or more homes are used part of the year. Across North Dakota: 1.7 new residents per new home.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 2 | 2 | 0 | $633,000 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $342,000 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $291,000 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $500,000 |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $180,000 |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2005 | 8 | 8 | 0 | $900,000 |
| 2004 | 5 | 3 | 2 | $405,000 |
| 2003 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $183,000 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $200,000 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2000 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $170,000 |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
On the market in Ashley
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.