Unveiling The 10 Best Small North Dakota Towns For 2024

Our friends at Roadsnacks came out with an article recently that caught my eye.

The 10 Worst Small North Dakota Towns for 2024.

Before any feathers get ruffled, let's keep in mind that even the worst small North Dakota towns are better than most towns around the country.

(You can read more about that here. The 10 Sketchiest Towns In North Dakota)

North Dakota continues to be one of the safest places to live and is a great place to raise a family.

Just like any state, we do have some trouble spots.  Roadsnacks analyzed data that showed North Dakota's highest places for crime, poverty, and unemployment.

Now, only towns with a population between 1,000 and 5,000 people were analyzed. 

That works out to only 42 North Dakota cities to fall into that category.

Here's the methodology that was used to determine the 10 worst small North Dakota towns. 

The criteria used FBI crime data and the Census’s 2018-2022 American Community Survey, to include the highest unemployment rates, low housing costs, adjusted median income (adjusted for the cost of living), education (number of high school dropouts), and high crime rates.

This is the tenth year Roadsnacks has ranked the 10 worst small North Dakota towns.

Today, I thought we would focus on the 10 BEST small North Dakota towns from their list of 42 towns.

Many of these communities have turned into almost suburbs of big cities like Fargo, Minot, Grand Forks, and Bismarck.

We have a total of two small towns that are nearby of Bismarck that made the ten best.

So, without further ado, these are the 10 BEST small North Dakota towns you could ever call home.

(Again, according to Roadsnacks and the criteria above.)