Best PlacesAlice, ND Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Alice, 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.
Alice ranks 16,413th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on health care access by a wide margin, and noise is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Alice
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.
Alice's strengths and weaknesses
Where Alice ranks high
- Healthcare accessBetter than 95% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 93% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 89% of towns
- Household income$107,614 median, better than 89% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 88% of towns
Where Alice ranks low
- QuietBetter than only 1% of towns
- BikingBetter than only 3% of towns
- Tree shadeBetter than only 4% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than only 13% of towns
- WalkabilityBetter than only 19% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Alice
A household needs to earn about $59,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Alice home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $107,614, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
Where the monthly payment goes
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 Alice's effective rate of 0.72%, 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 9 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Alice
Alice runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Alice.
Who works in Alice, and how
Work in Alice centers on agriculture & forestry and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 77%
- Work from home 15%
- Transit, walk, or bike 8%
Life in Alice
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Alice.
What the weather is like in Alice, month by month
Alice sees roughly 131 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 82 degrees. January highs sit near 20, with lows near 5. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 20° | 12° | 5° |
| April | 50° | 39° | 30° |
| July | 82° | 71° | 60° |
| October | 54° | 44° | 36° |
Flying in and out of Alice
The nearest airport, Hector International, is about 37 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Minneapolis-St Paul International/Wold-Chamberlain, about 246 miles away.
The best schools in and around Alice
Schools across Alice average a B, better than 64% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Central Cass Elementary SchoolB+ · 52% proficient
- S.g. Reinertsen ElementaryB+ · 51% proficient
- Ellen Hopkins ElementaryB · 46% proficient
Top middle schools
- Central Cass Middle SchoolB+ · 48% proficient
- Horizon Middle SchoolC+ · 38% proficient
Top high schools
- Maple Valley High SchoolB · 47% proficient
- Central Cass High SchoolB− · 45% proficient
- Enderlin Area High SchoolC+ · 40% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Alice school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Alice 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 Alice against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Alice
Is Alice a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Alice ranks 16,413th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on health care access, what local pay buys, and a stable housing market, and lowest on noise and biking. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Alice expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $226,700. The overall cost of living runs about 12% below the national average. Set against a $107,614 median income, cost of living beats 93% of towns.
Is Alice safe?
Alice is safer than 47% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $392 per resident a year.
Compare Alice with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Alice. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Alice 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.
Alice detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Alice: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Alice: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Alice: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Alice: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Alice detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- 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.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
Move a slider to say how much a measure matters. Zero turns it off.