City · Mercer County, North Dakota

Beulah, North Dakota

Beulah is a city in Mercer County, North Dakota. It has 3,040 residents. Beulah, North Dakota has a quality-of-life score of 86 out of 100 (very high), ranking #2,145 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within North Dakota it ranks #26 of 56 cities and towns. It ranks best on gyms and fitness centers (high), suicide rate (low) and social associations (high). It ranks worst on distance to an airport (high), flu vaccinations (low) and public EV charging ports (low).

86Very high

Quality-of-life score: #2,145 of 15,651 cities and towns
North Dakota: #26 of 56 in ND
Population: 3,040 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 1,244.6 /mi²
FIPS code: 3806660

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety72#4,456/15,637
Economy69#4,775/15,631
Housing85#2,304/14,977
Health75#3,837/15,609
Healthcare49#8,038/15,650
Environment79#3,292/15,453
Education72#4,329/15,649
Infrastructure30#10,968/15,650
Community99#107/15,651
Leisure & amenities98#285/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Beulah, North Dakota ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Mercer County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Gyms and fitness centers · high3.5 /10k
100/100North Dakota 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsMercer County value
Suicide rate · low0.0 /100k
100/100North Dakota 19.8 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100k2024Centers for Disease Control and PreventionMercer County value
Social associations · high25.3 /10k
99/100North Dakota 15.7 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMercer County value
Loneliness · low29.7%
99/100North Dakota 29.8%United States 33.2%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Drug overdose deaths · low0.0 /100k
99/100North Dakota 12.1 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100k2024Centers for Disease Control and PreventionMercer County value
Mammography screening · high60.0%
98/100North Dakota 55.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMercer County value

Weaknesses

Distance to an airport · high232 mi
0/100North Dakota 136 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauMercer County value
Flu vaccinations · low18.0%
1/100North Dakota 45.0%United States 44.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMercer County value
Public EV charging ports · low0.0 /10k
3/100North Dakota 3.5 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyMercer County value
Comfortable days · low23.4%
11/100North Dakota 24.3%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationMercer County value
Mental health providers · low84 /100k
12/100North Dakota 261 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMercer County value
New business applications · low8.9 /1k
14/100North Dakota 11.1 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauMercer County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationFalling
3,235 (2015-2019) → 3,040 (2020-2024)
−6%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
25.4% (2015-2019) → 71.2% (2020-2024)
+46 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
22.8% (2015-2019) → 38.9% (2020-2024)
+16 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Poverty rateWorsening
2.9% (2015-2019) → 11.2% (2020-2024)
+8.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.0× (2015-2019) → 2.6× (2020-2024)
+34%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
81.1% (2015-2019) → 86.4% (2020-2024)
+5.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Beulah, North Dakota improved on 0 of 11 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 10 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined1

Rent / income+16 points22.8% → 38.9%

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Beulah, North Dakota between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	15.1 min2015-2019	14.7 min2020-2024	−0.4 min	Within the margin of error	53%
Bachelor's degree or higher	23.8%2015-2019	19.3%2020-2024	−4.5 points	Within the margin of error	8%
Broadband subscriptions	81.1%2015-2019	86.4%2020-2024	+5.2 points	Within the margin of error	33%
Effective property tax rate	0.98%2015-2019	1.04%2020-2024	+0.1 points	Within the margin of error	10%
High school diploma or higher	93.2%2015-2019	88.3%2020-2024	−4.9 points	Within the margin of error	6%
Home price to income ratio	2.0×2015-2019	2.6×2020-2024	+0.7×	Within the margin of error	38%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3982015-2019	0.3972020-2024	−0.002	Within the margin of error	52%
Median household income	$99,1252015-2019	$76,8482020-2024	−22%	Within the margin of error	1%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	22.8%2015-2019	38.9%2020-2024	+16 points	Declined	4%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	15.4%2015-2019	11.3%2020-2024	−4.1 points	Within the margin of error	83%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Beulah, North Dakota five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Beulah, North Dakota in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Beulah, North Dakota itself moved −23.6 points in standing on average over the same 9 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

3,040 residents (±22)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

1,264 households (±150)

Beulah, North Dakota
North Dakota share

Under $25k13%†169
$25k–50k22%†272
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

1,264 households (±150)

Beulah, North Dakota
North Dakota share

Own72%913
Rent28%†351

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

1,312 workers (±175)

Beulah, North Dakota
North Dakota share

Drive alone92%1,212
Carpool3.5%†46
Public transit0.0%0

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Mercer County, the county holding most of Beulah's residents.

Mercer County has 248 employer establishments, 298 for every 10,000 residents (1.20× the US rate of 248; 0.92× North Dakota's), with 3,631 paid employees at an average annual pay of $83,837. The Census Bureau also counts 623 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 248; 623 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 298; US 248 · North Dakota 323
Paid employees: 3,631
Average annual pay: $83,837; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Mercer County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	15	18	0.86×About typical	192	$54,031	18
Specialty trade contractors	15	18	1.16×About typical	84	$90,500	42
Religious organizations	13	15.6	2.81×More than typical	72	$15,250	—
Restaurants and other eating places	12	14.4	0.78×Fewer than typical	130	$17,946	—
Insurance agencies and brokerages	11	13.2	3.01×More than typical	22	$37,455	6
Amusement, gambling and recreation industries	9	10.8	4.06×Too few to compare	79	$13,025	8
Drinking places (alcoholic beverages)	9	10.8	8.91×Too few to compare	48	$15,854	—
Gasoline stations	9	10.8	3.33×Too few to compare	122	$34,975	—
Offices of other health practitioners	9	10.8	1.78×Too few to compare	43	$36,860	3
Banks and credit unions	8	9.6	2.97×Too few to compare	94	$56,149	—
Other amusement and recreation industries	8	9.6	3.96×Too few to compare	79	$12,797	8
Building material and supplies dealers (hardware, home centers)	7	8.4	5.10×Too few to compare	52	$25,462	—

Rank places for an industry Open Mercer County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 8,329 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $6,059 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Beulah, North Dakota: $1.99 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $6,059
Per resident: $1.99; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

National Park Service$6,059100%

Top recipients

RAZOR CONSULTING SOLUTIONS, INC$6,059100%

Spending by fiscal year

90FY2018
2.5KFY2020
1.9KFY2021
4KFY2022
418.8FY2023
4.4KFY2024
-1.5KFY2025
6.1KFY2026

Top industries (NAICS)

Utility system construction · 2371$6,059100%

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Beulah, North Dakota, so they do not add up across cities.

Beulah, North Dakota's figures are part of those of Mercer County, ND ($463.8K in FY2026), never added to them: 1.3% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Beulah is mostly in Mercer County.

See federal money in Mercer County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Beulah, North Dakota is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Julie FedorchakR-ND · 100% of residentsWith party 100%Missed 2.1%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Mercer County98100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Mercer County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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