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Housing in Van Hook

A typical Van Hook home is worth roughly $450,000

No new homes were permitted in 2025.

Typical home value
$450K
ND $292K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,170
a month, utilities in · HUD

What kind of housing town is Van Hook?

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

★ What stands out · The homes

96% of Van Hook households own their home

Half of Van Hook’s homes were built before 2006.

Owners and renters
Own 96%Rent 4%

North Dakota: 63% own.

2006
typical home built · ND 1982
46%
of homes are seasonal or vacation homes

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

Affordability

What it takes to buy in Van Hook

Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$296,000
Typical Van Hook home $450K

That’s $154K short of a typical Van Hook home.

The typical home, each month
$2,730
Loan $2,230Tax $370Insurance $130

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,170 a month here, $1,560 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.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,170

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$950
1 bedroom$960
2 bedrooms$1,170
3 bedrooms$1,430
4 bedrooms$1,930
4%
of households rent · ND 37%
6
renter households

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (McKenzie 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

No new homes permitted in 2025

No permits for new homes were issued in Van Hook in 2025 or in any year since 2000.

Single-family
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new homes permitted in 2025
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2026 so far (Jan–Aug)
0
homes in the past 10 years
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Van Hook'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.

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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.

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