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North Dakota: county data, all 53 of them.

Every North Dakota county has a data page built from federal sources, each figure carrying its publisher and period. What this page does not carry is the North Dakota statutory framework, and the reason is below rather than hidden.

Counties
53
Population
784,841
Land area
69,002 sq mi
Establishments
25,121
Combined county GDP
$80.06 bn
SBA approvals recorded
1,761

Read this first

This is a county directory, not a state guide.

The county pages below are complete. They carry demographics, growth and migration, economic output, employment and wages, business establishments by industry, the construction pipeline, the SBA lending record including charge off rates, geography and hazard. Every figure names its publisher and the period it describes.

What is missing is the North Dakota legal and regulatory frame: how zoning and land development codes work in this state, what the entitlement path looks like, which agencies permit what, and which statutes override local codes. That material requires a research pack for North Dakota, and no such pack exists yet.

Why there is no state guide here

You cannot write North Dakota zoning law from a population table. Everything on the county pages is derived from federal datasets that cover all counties equally; statutory analysis is not, and generating it anyway would produce confident text about the law that nothing behind it supports.

Florida and California have research packs and therefore have full state guides. The remaining eight, including this one, do not. That is stated rather than papered over.

Counties

All 53 North Dakota county-equivalents.

North Dakota counties: population, income, establishments and SBA activity
GeographyPopulationMedian incomeEstablishmentsCounty GDPSBA approvalsLand area, sq mi
Adams County2,145$62,50087$169.2 m3988
Barnes County10,773$68,038349$853.0 m171,492
Benson County5,808$64,03379$365.5 m11,389
Billings County1,024$86,80655$224.0 m31,149
Bottineau County6,378$85,000255$586.1 m121,668
Bowman County2,906$72,109148$250.5 m41,162
Burke County2,156$91,59179$292.9 mNone recorded1,104
Burleigh County100,600$86,8513,218$7.81 bn2161,633
Cass County193,400$75,5555,988$19.10 bn7371,765
Cavalier County3,633$69,531135$589.2 m21,489
Dickey County4,935$68,654191$518.8 m51,131
Divide County2,167$91,85282$273.4 m51,261
Dunn County4,040$97,689211$1.93 bn82,008
Eddy County2,307$50,85077$221.1 mNone recorded630
Emmons County3,254$66,538108$177.6 m41,510
Foster County3,358$87,831138$309.1 m2635
Golden Valley County1,653$68,02165$118.3 mNone recorded1,001
Grand Forks County72,923$68,0751,903$5.92 bn1211,436
Grant County2,269$57,87582$104.5 mNone recorded1,659
Griggs County2,245$61,71182$204.1 m1709
Hettinger County2,432$73,02694$152.0 m31,132
Kidder County2,377$65,61092$188.7 m31,351
LaMoure County4,118$80,664154$341.1 m11,146
Logan County1,819$62,75070$128.4 mNone recorded993
McHenry County5,207$80,733141$278.7 mNone recorded1,874
McIntosh County2,497$64,419121$152.4 m2975
McKenzie County14,321$93,404594$4.35 bn232,760
McLean County9,823$83,583257$1.02 bn112,111
Mercer County8,337$80,946248$1.19 bn181,043
Morton County33,777$79,382895$1.98 bn551,926
Mountrail County9,507$80,717363$2.28 bn181,825
Nelson County3,016$67,193128$233.9 m1982
Oliver County1,839$77,24047$332.4 m6723
Pembina County6,727$68,393264$813.4 m41,119
Pierce County3,928$59,365160$267.4 m51,019
Ramsey County11,556$61,006416$883.0 m211,187
Ransom County5,643$75,736188$387.0 m12862
Renville County2,304$74,301109$232.1 m2877
Richland County16,584$75,432541$1.48 bn151,436
Rolette County11,924$59,517208$595.0 m5903
Sargent County3,804$77,946122$1.78 bn6859
Sheridan County1,303$62,63936$68.1 m1972
Sioux County3,740$42,08330$150.6 mNone recorded1,094
Slope County766$71,25013$44.7 mNone recorded1,215
Stark County33,302$84,4491,222$3.60 bn841,335
Steele County1,804$77,50057$213.0 m3712
Stutsman County21,549$61,856636$1.94 bn282,222
Towner County2,079$67,35078$287.5 mNone recorded1,025
Traill County7,970$87,004280$634.0 m15862
Walsh County10,396$71,944362$1.03 bn151,282
Ward County68,973$78,2382,043$5.09 bn1272,013
Wells County3,890$66,114168$443.7 m41,271
Williams County39,555$85,5951,652$7.47 bn1322,077

The register

Every source behind these 53 pages.

SourcePeriod coveredLicence
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates2020-2024 5-yearUS Census Bureau, public domain
US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2024Vintage 2024, estimates 2020 to 2024US Census Bureau, public domain
US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2CAGDP2, through 2024US Bureau of Economic Analysis, public domain
US EPA, Map of Radon Zones, county spreadsheet2024-05 publication, EPA 402/A-16/001US EPA, public domain
FEMA OpenFEMA, NFIP Community Status BookCommunity Status Book, as retrievedFEMA OpenFEMA, public domain
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA releaseFY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30FOIA release, public domain
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA releaseFY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30FOIA release, public domain
US Census Bureau county boundary geometry, TIGER, adjacency computed from shared boundary verticesTIGER county boundariesUS Census Bureau, public domain
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns2023US Census Bureau, public domain
US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages2024 annual averagesUS BLS, public domain
US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey2024 annualUS Census Bureau, public domain
US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows2021 to 2022 filing yearsIRS SOI, public domain

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