North Dakota homebuyers face a $250,000 median price, 40% below the national figure. Against the state's $68,000 median household income, that's a 3.7x price-to-income ratio.
North Dakota's 0.98% average property tax rate runs below the 1.1% national average, working out to $204/month on the median home here.
Unlike the nine no-income-tax states, North Dakota taxes wage income at 0%–2.5%. Worth running your actual take-home pay against the $1,618/month payment here before locking in a target price.
North Dakota's cost of living index is 93, below the 100 national baseline. That's on top of the housing numbers above, not instead of them.
North Dakota's median home price runs almost identical to Nebraska, both landing close to $250,000.