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Housing in St. Thomas

A typical St. Thomas home is worth roughly $79,000

Builders were permitted 1 new home in 2025.

Typical home value
$79K
ND $292K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$870
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,033
ND $2,468

What kind of housing town is St. Thomas?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in St. Thomas

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You could afford about
$296,000
Typical St. Thomas home $79K

That covers a typical St. Thomas home, with $217K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$480
Loan $390Tax $70Insurance $20

A two-bedroom rents for about $870 a month here, $390 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.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $870

Renters already here pay a median of $825.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$760
1 bedroom$790
2 bedrooms$870
3 bedrooms$1,210
4 bedrooms$1,470
15%
of households rent · ND 37%
8
renter households
$825
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Pembina County, ND): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

New construction

1 new home permitted in 2025

Builders were permitted 1 new home in St. Thomas in 2025. Over the past 10 years, St. Thomas has permitted 1 homes in all.

Single-family
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new homes permitted in 2025
0
2026 so far (Jan–Aug)
1
homes in the past 10 years
Every year as a table
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Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.

The homes

1 of St. Thomas’s houses are on the National Register

Half of St. Thomas’s homes were built before 1958.

History →
Owners and renters
Own 85%Rent 15%

North Dakota: 63% own.

1958
typical home built · ND 1982
$1,033
median property tax bill · ND $2,468
6%
of homes are seasonal or vacation homes
Historic houses in St. Thomas

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places.

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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. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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