A typical Bowman home is worth roughly $175,000
Builders were permitted 5 new homes in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Bowman?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 2.8 years of income
Less than across North Dakota (3.8 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Bowman home, with $74K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $870 a month here, $160 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Bowman’s typical property tax (0.80% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
A two-bedroom rents for about $870
Renters already here pay a median of $713, 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 (Bowman County, ND): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
5 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 5 new homes in Bowman in 2025: 3 single-family houses and 2 in buildings with two or more homes, worth about $2.2 million to build. That's 3.3 per 1,000 residents, about the pace of North Dakota as a whole. Over the past 10 years, Bowman has permitted 13 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Bowman's population fell by 180 even though 50 new homes were 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) | 4 | 2 | 2 | $1.6 million |
| 2025 | 5 | 3 | 2 | $2.2 million |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $500,000 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $700,000 |
| 2021 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $1.5 million |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $50,000 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $120,000 |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $340,000 |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $381,000 |
| 2014 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $526,000 |
| 2013 | 29 | 3 | 26 | $6.9 million |
| 2012 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $825,000 |
| 2011 | 8 | 8 | 0 | $903,000 |
| 2010 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $320,000 |
| 2009 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $515,000 |
| 2008 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $400,000 |
| 2007 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $481,000 |
| 2006 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $348,000 |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $125,000 |
| 2004 | 5 | 0 | 5 | $1.4 million |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2001 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $505,000 |
| 2000 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $385,000 |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
1 of Bowman’s houses are on the National Register
Half of Bowman’s homes were built before 1966.
North Dakota: 63% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places.
On the market in Bowman
Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.
Neighbors talk housing
What Bowman buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
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. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.