A typical Dunn Center home is worth roughly $179,000
Builders were permitted 2 new homes in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Dunn Center?
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What it takes to buy in Dunn Center
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That covers a typical Dunn Center home, with $118K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $900 a month here, $180 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the North Dakota typical property tax (0.99% 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 $900
Renters already here pay a median of $979.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Dunn County, ND): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
2 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 2 new homes in Dunn Center in 2025, all single-family houses. Over the past 10 years, Dunn Center has permitted 10 homes in all.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2025 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $400,000 |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $400,000 |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $200,000 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $200,000 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $200,000 |
| 2020 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $298,000 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $130,000 |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $200,000 |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $126,000 |
| 2013 | 9 | 9 | 0 | $750,000 |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $371,000 |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2009 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $53,000 |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2005 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $60,000 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Dunn Center's permit office didn't report to the Census in 2025, so the 2025 figures are Census estimates.
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
38% of Dunn Center households own their home
Half of Dunn Center’s homes were built before 1978.
North Dakota: 63% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
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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.