Best Places58631, ND Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood inside ZIP code 58631, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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58631 ranks 17,007th of 33,110 U.S. zip codes on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on a stable housing market by a wide margin, and tree cover ranks lowest.

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The best neighborhoods in 58631

Map of the best neighborhoods in the 58631 area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.

58631's strengths and weaknesses

Top 10%A stable housing market
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare 58631 with other zip codes.

Where 58631 ranks high

  • Housing crash safetyBetter than 90% of zip codes
  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 86% of zip codes
  • Air qualityBetter than 85% of zip codes
  • WalkabilityBetter than 84% of zip codes
  • Nice weatherabout 136 pleasant days a year, better than 84% of zip codes

Where 58631 ranks low

  • Tree shadeBetter than only 2% of zip codes
  • Big-city accessBetter than only 5% of zip codes
  • Low vacancyBetter than only 23% of zip codes
  • Disaster safetyBetter than only 28% of zip codes
  • Household income$62,438 median, better than only 29% of zip codes

What it costs to buy a home in 58631

A household needs to earn about $39,000 a year to comfortably buy the median 58631 home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $62,438, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$39,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$916
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $149,871 home
Median rent
$776
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$764
Property tax$102
Homeowners insurance$50

Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses 58631's effective rate of 0.82%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.

Renting versus buying

At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 7 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in 58631

58631 runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.

Median age
51
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
30%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.1
below the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1817%
18 to 3416%
35 to 4919%
50 to 6418%
65 and older30%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for 58631.


Who works in 58631, and how

Work in 58631 centers on agriculture & forestry and health care & social. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
20%
above the national average
Unemployment
3.9%
below the national average
Job growth
+2.4%
/y 2019-2023, near the national pace

Largest industries

Agriculture & forestry23%
Health care & social15%
Retail trade9%
Manufacturing8%
Education8%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 77%
  • Work from home 20%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 3%

Life in 58631

The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across 58631.


What the weather is like in 58631, month by month

58631 sees roughly 136 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 85 degrees. January highs sit near 26, with lows near 6. The comfortable stretch runs June through September.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January26°16°
April55°40°28°
July85°70°57°
October58°44°32°

Flying in and out of 58631

The nearest airport, Dickinson/Theodore Roosevelt Regional, is about 46 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Minneapolis-St Paul International/Wold-Chamberlain, about 435 miles away.

Nearest airport
DIK
Dickinson/Theodore Roosevelt Regional, about 46 miles
Airport size
Nonhub
329th-busiest in the US, 1 nonstop destinations
Average drive
66 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around 58631

Schools across 58631 average a C, better than 29% of zip codes.

Top elementary schools

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Top high schools

Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every 58631 school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


58631 measure by measure

Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare 58631 against the other 33,109 zip codes.


Common questions about living in 58631

Is 58631 a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, 58631 ranks 17,007th of 33,110 zip codes. It scores highest on a stable housing market, low taxes, and clean air, and lowest on tree cover and distance from a big city. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is 58631 expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $149,871. The overall cost of living runs about 24% below the national average. Set against a $62,438 median income, cost of living beats 59% of zip codes.

Is 58631 safe?

58631 is safer than 54% of zip codes. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $381 per resident a year.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to 58631. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in 58631 represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.

58631 detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for 58631: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in 58631: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of 58631: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in 58631: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

58631 detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.