Minot's median home price sits at $255,000, 39% below the $420,000 national median. On a $62,000 median household income, that puts the price-to-income ratio at 4.1x, or 4.1 years of gross pay for the purchase price alone.
At a 1.02% effective rate, Minot property taxes add $217 to the monthly payment on the median home, $2,601 a year in total.
Unlike the nine no-income-tax states, North Dakota taxes wage income. Worth running your actual take-home pay against the $1,652/month payment here before locking in a target price.
Day-to-day expenses in Minot track at 89 against the national 100 baseline, below average once you look past the mortgage payment itself.
Minot's median home price runs 14% lower than nearby Fargo: $295,000 there versus $255,000 here.