A typical Kulm home is worth roughly $70,000
Builders were permitted 1 new home in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Kulm?
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What it takes to buy in Kulm
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That covers a typical Kulm home, with $226K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,060 a month here, $640 more 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 $1,060
Renters already here pay a median of $836, 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 Kulm in 2025. Over the past 10 years, Kulm has permitted 4 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Kulm gained 14 residents while 5 new homes were permitted: about 2.8 new residents per new home. Building and growth moved roughly in step. 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 | $600,000 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $300,000 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 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 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $453,000 |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $450,000 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $500,000 |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $580,000 |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $115,000 |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $115,000 |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $115,000 |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $115,000 |
| 2003 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $115,000 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $120,000 |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $120,000 |
| 2000 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $360,000 |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
84% of Kulm households own their home
Half of Kulm’s homes were built before 1958.
North Dakota: 63% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
On the market in Kulm
Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.
Neighbors talk housing
What Kulm buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
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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.