58201 — Grand Forks, North Dakota

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 58201. Its median home value runs 15% above Grand Forks as a whole, which is why this ZIP carries a profile of its own.

68out of 100
Area Score
Top 18% of 3,113 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 14 sources
OpportunityTop 7% of 3,116 ZIP areas measured80
GrowthTop 33% of 3,124 ZIP areas measured59
Housing affordabilityTop 15% of 3,112 ZIP areas measured79
Climate3,118th of 3,127 ZIP areas measured45
Physical resilienceTop 32% of 3,127 ZIP areas measured72
Access2,985th of 3,127 ZIP areas measured54
Economic stabilityTop 23% of 3,127 ZIP areas measured70
The quick read

58201 ranks in the top 7% of ZIP areas measured for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 1.9% and median household income of $68,143. The unemployment rate is published for Grand Forks, ND, which contains 58201, rather than for 58201 alone.

135 housing units were authorized over the past twelve months, within 13% of the prior year — steady rather than turning. The permit count and 1 other measure here are published for Grand Forks, ND, which contains 58201, rather than for 58201 alone.

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most ZIP areas measured: rent takes 27% of renter income and the median home is 2.7 times what its owners earn.

These sentences are written by fixed rules from the measurements below — a statement appears because a number crossed a stated threshold, and the values behind it are stored with it. No figure anywhere on this site is invented, estimated or inferred to fill a gap. How this works.

At a glance

Population
42,373
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$68,143
Bottom 44% nationally
Density
614/sq mi
69 sq mi of land
Median age
33.1
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Grand Forks
North Dakota
Nearest major airport
FAR
67 mi · Hector Intl
Median home value
$288,500
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment across Grand Forks, ND, which contains 58201, is 1.9%, lower than in 99% of the 3,127 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment across Grand Forks, ND, which contains 58201, grew 0.9% over the past year, to 34,113 employed residents.

40% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 79% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Income of new arrivalsGrand Forks County, ND’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$51,89913th percentileof 2,996filing years 2022–2023
Income of those who leftGrand Forks County, ND’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$58,44128th percentileof 2,996filing years 2022–2023
Median household income ±$5,1922024 ACS 5-Year$68,143Bottom 44%of 31,0492024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,1992024 ACS 5-Year$45,278Top 27%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year8.7%Top 42%of 32,8462024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±0.9 min2024 ACS 5-Year16.5 minTop 6%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±3%2024 ACS 5-Year40.1%Top 21%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year81.1%70th percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentGrand Forks, ND’s figureJuly 202634,113Bottom 37%of 3,127July 2026
Employment change (3 years)Grand Forks, ND’s figureJuly 2026+3.5%Top 12%of 3,127July 2026
Employment change (year over year)Grand Forks, ND’s figureJuly 2026+0.9%Top 19%of 3,127July 2026
Labor forceGrand Forks, ND’s figureJuly 202634,76036th percentileof 3,127July 2026
Labor force participation ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year86.4%Top 15%of 32,8832024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wageGrand Forks, ND-MN Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$61,980Bottom 32%of 2,7602025 OEWS
Median annual wageGrand Forks, ND-MN Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$49,760Top 50%of 2,7602025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±0.2%2024 ACS 5-Year0.3%68th percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)Grand Forks, ND’s figureJuly 2026−0.2%Top 45%of 3,127July 2026
Unemployment rateGrand Forks, ND’s figureJuly 20261.9%Top 1%of 3,127July 2026
Worked from home ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year5.8%29th percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year

Median household income, successive ACS releases

202120222023202469k58k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $68,143 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.

Largest occupations — Grand Forks, ND-MN

OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Retail Salespersons1,620$34,440
Fast Food and Counter Workers1,490$29,540
Home Health and Personal Care Aides1,350$41,080
Registered Nurses1,280$79,070
Cashiers1,280$30,980
General and Operations Managers1,220$85,420

Searches the 40 largest occupations here that have a published wage.

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Grand Forks, ND, the city containing this ZIP code.

47% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 52% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 10.6 students for every full-time teacher across 10 public schools, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
10
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
10.6
across all schools here
Math proficiency
47.4%
2018-19 school year
Reading proficiency
52.2%
2018-19 school year
All 10 public schools on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Red River High SchoolGRAND FORKS 11,19014.035%44%
Schroeder Middle SchoolGRAND FORKS 15697.556%57%
Discovery Elementary SchoolGRAND FORKS 156717.752%57%
South Middle SchoolGRAND FORKS 15496.247%50%
Century Elementary SchoolGRAND FORKS 149312.041%57%
J Nelson Kelly Elementary SchoolGRAND FORKS 148213.067%63%
Ben Franklin Elementary SchoolGRAND FORKS 136712.247%52%
Viking Elementary SchoolGRAND FORKS 13288.052%47%
Phoenix Elementary SchoolGRAND FORKS 12359.847%47%
Lewis and Clark Elementary SchoolGRAND FORKS 117813.747%57%

27.9% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with, not how the schools perform, so it is shown and not scored.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data, placed by ZIP code — which schools are in this place, not which one a particular address is zoned for. A dash in a proficiency column is a gap in the federal file, not a bad result. Proficiency is measured against North Dakota’s own standard, so it is ranked within state. How to read school figures.

Prices for everything a household buys run about 14% below the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 85.9, against 100 for the nation. Nationally, housing drives most of the spread between places in this index; other goods vary far less.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s house price index for the Grand Forks, ND-MN Metro Area is up 35% over five years, and up 7.2% over the last year. It follows repeat sales of the same homes, so it measures price change rather than which homes happened to sell.

Homeowners here who pay a tax bill pay a median of $3,468 a year in real estate taxes, about 1.20% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $1,089, some 10% above the $987 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $1,089 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $43,600 a year, about 64% of the median household income here of $68,143.

The typical renter household here spends 27% of its income on rent, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $987 a month.

A median home at $288,500 costs 2.7 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $107,204, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Cost of living
85.9

Prices here run about 14% below the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Published for the Grand Forks, ND-MN Metro Area as a whole. Prices are regional — people shop, commute and rent across a metropolitan area rather than within a city boundary — so this describes the cost of living around this place better than a figure drawn to its own limits would.

Rent as a share of income
27.0%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.7×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$1,089
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$987
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$288,500
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against 58201’s median household income of $68,143, which describes the place rather than you. Enter your own and the ratio is recomputed against it. It stays in this browser.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living indexthe Grand Forks, ND-MN Metro Area’s figure202385.9Top 1%of 2,7372023
Home price change (1 year)the Grand Forks, ND-MN Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+7.2%96th percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the Grand Forks, ND-MN Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+35.0%24th percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the Grand Forks, ND-MN Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+51.5%3rd percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.22024 ACS 5-Year2.7Top 49%of 29,2752024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year49.7%9th percentileof 32,7502024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±5072024 ACS 5-Year20,58897th percentileof 33,4602024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$868Top 15%of 3,031FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$1,515Top 24%of 3,031FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$1,089Top 16%of 3,031FY2026
Median gross rent ±$372024 ACS 5-Year$987Top 48%of 26,3962024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$11,8762024 ACS 5-Year$288,50065th percentileof 30,8122024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$1172024 ACS 5-Year$3,46875th percentileof 28,9352024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$5,0792024 ACS 5-Year$107,204Top 24%of 29,8022024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.06%2024 ACS 5-Year1.20%69th percentileof 24,0992024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year27.0%Top 42%of 26,2472024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±802024 ACS 5-Year10075th percentileof 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year0.5%41st percentileof 32,9612024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year4.3%31st percentileof 32,7882024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±3382024 ACS 5-Year97687th percentileof 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year

These measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with. They compare housing cost with local earnings only: transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not in them. How to read affordability, the two rent figures and the cost-of-living index.

Development Momentum

59/ 100
Top 33% of 3,124 published ZIP profiles

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

New construction is predominantly single-family: of 135 units permitted over the past twelve months, none were in buildings of five or more homes. The multifamily share is published for Grand Forks, ND, which contains 58201, rather than for 58201 alone.

At 2.3 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US ZIP areas. The permit rate is published for Grand Forks, ND, which contains 58201, rather than for 58201 alone.

Units permitted
135
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
2.3
Bottom 41% nationally
Year over year
+13%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

People moving in and out

Net migration
−0.7%
of residents, in a year
Arrivals from another state
73%
of people moving in
Income of arrivals
$51,899
average per tax return
Income of those who left
$58,441
average per tax return

Where newcomers came from

  1. Polk County, MN 367 people · 9.9% of arrivals
  2. Cass County, ND 269 people · 7.3% of arrivals
  3. Walsh County, ND 115 people · 3.1% of arrivals
  4. Traill County, ND 82 people · 2.2% of arrivals
  5. Burleigh County, ND 60 people · 1.6% of arrivals

Where people who left went

  1. Cass County, ND 416 people · 10% of departures
  2. Polk County, MN 249 people · 6.1% of departures
  3. Hennepin County, MN 139 people · 3.4% of departures
  4. Traill County, ND 78 people · 1.9% of departures
  5. Maricopa County, AZ 70 people · 1.7% of departures

Based on the address on federal tax returns, compared with the same filers a year earlier. It counts people who file, and sees a move only when the address on a return changes. Domestic moves only: people arriving from abroad are left out. This is the figure for Grand Forks County, ND. IRS Statistics of Income, filing years 2022–2023.

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Grand Forks, ND, the city containing this ZIP code.

Weather & climate

4 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 81°F and January a low of -3°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 21.7 inches, including 48.4 inches of snow.

-10°10°30°50°70°90°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station GRAND FORKS INTL AP, 5.6 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND3.8"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals21.7"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall1991-2020 Normals48.4"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals-3°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals81°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals41991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals62°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. How to read climate and air quality.

Physical risk

72 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, cold wave and tornado, with inland flooding alone responsible for 49% of it. Inland flooding is independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large that hazard is.

Winter weatherElevated
Ice stormElevated
HailElevated
Strong windElevated
Cold waveHigh
TornadoHigh
Heat waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: inland flooding, wildfire, lightning, landslide, drought, earthquake, avalanche, tsunami, volcanic activity, hurricane, coastal flooding.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offenses — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Homicide
2.2
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Firearm deaths, all intents
12.5
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Drug overdose
7.5
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Suicide
16.5
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides, so the firearm figure and the homicide figure above it count some of the same deaths twice over. They overlap and should not be added together.

Death rates are crude rates — deaths divided by population, not adjusted for age — except where a count was too small for the CDC to publish and it modeled the rate, which the card marks. They come from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC by county and not below it. So they describe the county around 58201 (Grand Forks County) rather than 58201 itself. They are shown and not scored. How to read death rates.

What this profile does not cover

Each of these is absent for a reason, not by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them; the weighting is on the methodology page.

Reported crime
Offenses reported to police are published by department rather than by town, so AreaProfile shows a rate only on city profiles, and only where that city’s department submitted every month of a year. A ZIP area is not a jurisdiction, so no department reports for one. Grand Forks carries the figure where its department reported a full year. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Air quality
The EPA publishes an air-quality index only where a monitor sits. There is none in this county, and a modeled value would be a different kind of number from the measured ones everywhere else on this page.
Taxes
Income and sales taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Property taxes are shown in the housing section but are not part of the score. The cost-of-living index above is a price level for all consumption, not a household budget, and it excludes taxes. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house.

Access

1 major airport lies within 100 miles, the nearest Hector Intl at 67 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year89.0%Bottom 48%of 32,6632024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle67 miBottom 6%of 3,127NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle1Bottom 1%of 3,127NASR current cycle
No internet access ±1%2024 ACS 5-Year4.9%Top 32%of 32,6632024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Hector IntlFAR67 mi9,001 ft
Duluth IntlDLH242 mi10,591 ft
Minneapolis-St Paul Intl/Wold-ChamberlainMSP278 mi11,006 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource period
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)
Demographics, IncomeInternal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division
U.S. Population Migration Data (county to county)
filing years 2022–2023
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 Normals
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWS
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
July 2026
Access, Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-Year
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimate
SafetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
March 2025 to February 2026; May 2025 to April 2026
SchoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2018-19 school year; 2024-25 school year
HousingU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research
Fair Market Rents
FY2026
HousingU.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency
House Price Index (traditional, all-transactions)
2026 Q2
Current conditionsNOAA National Weather Service
National Weather Service current conditions
Live observation, read when the page opens

Profile recalculated October 8, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology, or every source with how often each updates.

58201 vs Grand Forks

How this ZIP area compares with Grand Forks as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like — a gap here is a real difference between the two places, not two surveys disagreeing.

58201
Grand Forks
Median household income: 58201 is the more favorable of the two.
Median household income
$68,143
vs
$63,627
Per capita income: 58201 is the more favorable of the two.
Per capita income
$45,278
vs
$39,857
Population density
614/sq mi
vs
2,028/sq mi
Median home value
$288,500
vs
$249,900
Median gross rent: Grand Forks is the more favorable of the two.
Median gross rent
$987
vs
$980
Homeownership rate
49.7%
vs
46.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher: 58201 is the more favorable of the two.
Bachelor's degree or higher
40.1%
vs
40.0%
Poverty rate: 58201 is the more favorable of the two.
Poverty rate
8.7%
vs
9.7%
Median age
33.1
vs
29.6

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.