Grant County, North Dakota Eviction Risk: Low

Grant County sits in the southwestern quarter of North Dakota, covering roughly 1,660 square miles of mixed-use agricultural land between the Cannonball and Heart rivers. Its estimated population of 1,841 residents is spread across seven incorporated places, none larger than 701 people, and the rental market reflects that rural scale: average rent runs about $704 per month against an average rent burden of 30.3 percent, a figure that sits meaningfully above the 30-percent threshold that housing researchers use as the affordability line. With renters making up only 24.4 percent of occupied housing units and a poverty rate of 18.5 percent, the county's rental pool is modest but carries real financial strain for the households inside it.

On the Eviction Risk Map scale, Grant County registers 3.4/10 (Low), placing it at rank 15th of 53 North Dakota counties - meaning only 14 counties carry higher scores statewide and 38 score lower. That puts Grant in the higher-risk of the state, a positioning that reflects the absence of any local tenant-protection layers rather than acute housing market stress: North Dakota preempts municipalities from enacting rent control under state law, no just-cause eviction requirement applies, and the county has no local fair-housing ordinances that supplement state statute. North Dakota's eviction framework (N.D.C.C. § 47-16) is among the more landlord-streamlined in the region, which pushes scores upward relative to states with denser local regulation.

Scores across Grant County's seven cities span a range of 3.1 to 3.7/10. Elgin - the county's second-largest community at 585 residents - is the highest-risk jurisdiction, scoring 3.7/10, a gap driven in part by its higher renter concentration relative to other Grant County towns. Leith scores 3.6/10, the second-highest reading in the county despite a population of only 30. At the other end, Raleigh (pop. 20) posts the county minimum at 3.1/10. The county seat, Carson (pop. 316), comes in at 3.4/10, and the largest community, Glen Ullin (pop. 701), sits at 3.2/10. The compressed spread between most cities - six of seven fall within roughly half a point of each other - reflects how uniformly North Dakota state law governs landlord-tenant relations in smaller markets where local ordinances rarely diverge from the state baseline. Landlords evaluating properties across different Grant County communities will find that procedural risk and regulatory burden are broadly similar from one town to the next, with Elgin warranting a slightly closer read on local vacancy dynamics before committing to a long-term hold.

Grant County's 3.4/10 score reflects a legal environment defined almost entirely by North Dakota state statute rather than local overlay. N.D.C.C. § 47-16 requires only a 3-day notice for nonpayment or lease violations and a 30-day notice for no-cause terminations. No rent cap, no just-cause requirement, and no source-of-income protection apply at any level within the county. Court filing costs run $75 to $150 and an uncontested case typically resolves in 21 to 40 days - cost and timeline structures that sit on the landlord-favorable side of the national distribution.