Cost of Living & Housing in Fort Yates
Fort Yates' cost of living centers on genuinely low housing costs and a genuinely low property tax burden, set against real, disclosed economic challenges facing the wider Standing Rock Reservation this record does not omit.
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Learn moreGenuinely affordable housing costs
Fort Yates' own median home price ran approximately $86,000, with a median monthly rent of approximately $450 -- both well below North Dakota's statewide housing figures (base record).
A genuinely low property tax burden
No Fort-Yates-specific Ownwell figure was found this pass; Sioux County's own average effective property tax rate ran approximately 0.49%, with a $410 median county-level tax bill cited as the lowest of any North Dakota county (base record).
North Dakota's lightest-in-the-nation income tax
North Dakota's 2026 individual income tax is a three-bracket graduated structure (0%, 1.95%, 2.50% top marginal) multiple sources describe as the lowest top marginal rate of any US state with an income tax at all (base record).
Real, disclosed local economic challenges
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's own 2025-2030 economic development strategy describes over 50% of the available reservation workforce as unemployed, and a separate source found more than 40% of the reservation's population below the federal poverty line -- a real, disclosed economic reality this record does not omit, alongside the tribe's own current development planning efforts (base record).
Key takeaways
- Housing runs genuinely affordable: an approximately $86,000 median home price and $450 median rent.
- Sioux County's own approximately 0.49% effective property tax rate and $410 median tax bill run among the lowest in North Dakota.
- North Dakota's three-bracket income tax structure applies here as documented statewide.
- Real, current, substantial unemployment and poverty challenges affect the wider Standing Rock Reservation -- confirm current figures directly with the tribe.
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