A typical Walcott home is worth roughly $189,000
Builders were permitted 1 new home in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Walcott?
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What it takes to buy in Walcott
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That covers a typical Walcott home, with $107K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,240 a month here, $90 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.
90% of Walcott households own their home
Half of Walcott’s homes were built before 1979.
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 two-bedroom rents for about $1,240
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Richland 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 Walcott in 2025. Over the past 10 years, Walcott has permitted 9 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Walcott gained 27 residents while 5 new homes were permitted: about 5.4 new residents per new home. Population grew faster than building, so existing homes filled up: a sign of tight supply. 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) | 1 | 1 | 0 | $273,000 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $273,000 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $273,000 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $273,000 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $250,000 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $250,000 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $250,000 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $250,000 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $250,000 |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $250,000 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $250,000 |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 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 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $400,000 |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2005 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2002 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $295,000 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Walcott'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.