A typical Roland home is worth roughly $391,000
Builders were permitted 14 new homes in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Roland?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
99% of Roland households own their home
Half of Roland’s homes were built before 1990.
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 typical home costs 3.5 years of income
Less than across North Dakota (3.8 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Roland home, with $60K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $890 a month here, $1,370 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Roland’s typical property tax (0.66% 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 $890
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Bottineau County, ND): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
14 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 14 new homes in Roland in 2025, all single-family houses, worth about $5.1 million to build. Over the past 10 years, Roland has permitted 97 homes in all.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 8 | 8 | 0 | $3.2 million |
| 2025 | 14 | 14 | 0 | $5.1 million |
| 2024 | 7 | 7 | 0 | $2.4 million |
| 2023 | 11 | 11 | 0 | $3.7 million |
| 2022 | 12 | 12 | 0 | $4.2 million |
| 2021 | 12 | 12 | 0 | $2 million |
| 2020 | 10 | 10 | 0 | $1.9 million |
| 2019 | 7 | 7 | 0 | $1.4 million |
| 2018 | 9 | 9 | 0 | $2 million |
| 2017 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $1.9 million |
| 2016 | 10 | 8 | 2 | $2.7 million |
| 2015 | 15 | 15 | 0 | $4 million |
| 2014 | 13 | 13 | 0 | $2 million |
| 2013 | 13 | 13 | 0 | $4.6 million |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
Roland vs. its neighbors
The towns that share a border with Roland. Tap one to see its housing page.
Compare more
| Town | Typical value | 1-yr change | 2-bed rent | New homes 2025 | Median income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roland | $391K* | — | $890 | 14 | $111,667 |
| Whitteron | $352K* | — | $890 | — | $130,500 |
Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.
Neighbors talk housing
What Roland 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. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.