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Your life in Billings County, North Dakota
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What stands out
What stands out about Billings County: the restaurant count per person is among the most in America (5.6 per 1,000), violent crime is in the bottom 3% of American counties (2.8 per 1,000), and home internet speed is in the bottom 3% of American counties (58 Mbps). Within North Dakota it ranks 1st of 36 counties for the restaurant count per person.
Where you are
You live in Billings County, North Dakota. 839 people live here with you, so most faces are familiar. The population grew 0.9% last year, and more Americans moved in than out (net +1).
North Dakota's income tax is now among the lowest of any state that has one, with a top rate under 2.5% after 2023 cuts funded by oil revenue, and it stopped taxing Social Security in 2021. Housing is inexpensive and the state has the lowest unemployment in the country in most years. Winters are severe, and the Bakken oil economy makes the western counties boom and bust.
Money
The typical household here brings in $74,000 a year, higher than 81% of American counties. Employers pay an average wage of $57,004. Unemployment runs 2.0%, lower than 96% of American counties. 14% of workers work from home.
North Dakota takes 0.7% of that median income in state income tax, about $498 a year.
Home
A two-bedroom rents for around $646 a month. Property tax is 0.48% of home value, roughly $1,133 a year on that median home, lower than 90% of American counties. 74% of households own rather than rent.
Safety and health
Violent crime here is 2.8 per 1,000 residents, lower than 97% of American counties.
There is 1 active physician in the county, about 11.9 per 10,000 people. 6.2% of people under 65 have no health insurance.
School
95% of adults finished high school.
Neighbors and politics
In 2024 your neighbors voted Republican by 63 points, among the most lopsided counties in the country. 94% of eligible voters turned out. Under North Dakota law you can carry a concealed handgun without a permit, abortion is banned with narrow exceptions, and marijuana is medical only.
Weather and risk
The year averages 44°F, highs near 56 and lows near 31, colder than 94% of American counties. About 19 inches of rain and snow fall a year. FEMA puts natural-hazard risk at 4 out of 100, safer than 96% of American counties; the county has had 12 federal disaster declarations since 1953.
Getting around, going out
Home internet averages 58 Mbps down, slower than 97% of American counties. For a night or a weekend out: 5.6 full-service restaurants per 1,000 people, 1 National Park Service site.
Where these numbers come from
- BLS QCEW 2024
- CDC 2024
- CMS 2024
- Census 2023
- Census ACS
- Census ACS 2022
- Census Population Estimates 2023
- Census SAHIE 2024
- County Health Rankings 2024
- Derived from ACS 2022 home value / household income
- FAA Airport Database
- FEMA Disaster Declarations 1953–2026
- FEMA National Risk Index 2023 (0–100, all hazards)
- HRSA Area Health Resources File 2023
- IMLS
- NOAA Climate Normals
- National Park Service
- Ookla Speedtest Intelligence
- Open Brewery DB
- OpenElections 2024
- SEDA via County Health Rankings 2024 (3.0 = at grade level; not a Z-score)
- Tax Foundation 2023
- USDA Food Environment Atlas
- Zillow ZHVI 2024
- North Dakota tax and law data: state revenue department, Tax Foundation, Giffords, Guttmacher (2026)
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