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Home inspectors in the Fargo, ND-MN metro area
How the Fargo, ND-MN metro area compares with other metro areas and the U.S. for home inspectors: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 51 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #124 of 243 scored metro areas
The only scored metro area based in North Dakota
- Listings
- 11
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- 3
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $1.6B
- On rent and homeowner costs · $14,219 a household
- Housing spending per listing (U.S. = 100)
- 54
- 46% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 1.0
- 67% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 269,528
- +7.7% since 2020
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What this means
At $14,219 per household (15% below the U.S. average), households in the Fargo metro area spend about $1.6B a year on rent and homeowner costs. Housing spending per business is 46% below the U.S. figure. The spending figure is all rent and homeowner costs, a measure of housing demand, not money home inspectors take in.
The Fargo metro area has 11 home inspectors on map listings as of September 2026. None of them are chain locations, against 3% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 1.0, 67% above the U.S. rate of 0.6.
Official counts show 3 businesses with payroll classed as building inspection services in the Fargo metro area in 2023. That is one for every 36,796 households, against one for every 17,237 across the U.S.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Fargo metro area grew 7.7%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). For home inspectors, the Fargo metro area has a Groundwork market score of 51 (upper middle): #124 of 243 scored metro areas and the only scored metro area based in North Dakota.
How the Fargo metro area compares
The same measures for North Dakota and the whole U.S. Housing spending per listing divides all rent and homeowner costs by the listings counted: a measure of housing demand for each business, not money any of them take in, so it is shown against the U.S. (100) only. Households per establishment divides households by the official count.
| Measure | Fargo metro area | North Dakota | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.6 |
| Housing spending per listing (U.S. = 100) | 54 | 94 | 100 |
| Households per official establishment | 36,796 | 36,785 | 17,237 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | n/a | +6.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +7.7% | +2.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on rent and homeowner costs | $14,219 | $14,169 | $16,661 |
| Median household income | $76,756 | $76,657 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 51 | 52 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 3
- Employees, 2023
- 10
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $475K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 110 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 6The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as building inspection services in the Fargo metro area, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in the Fargo metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 269,528+7.7% since 2020
- Households
- 110,387
- Median age
- 34.5
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 55%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.8
- Land area
- 2,810 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 92
- Median household income
- $76,756+18.7% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $102,833
- Median home value
- $289,100
- Jobs located here
- 152,491
- Daytime population
- 275,728Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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- Real estate41
- Real estate agents and brokers45
- Property management26
- Mortgage brokers and lenders63
- Home inspectors51
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Questions
How many home inspectors are in the Fargo, ND-MN metro area?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 11 home inspectors in the Fargo metro area. None of them are chain locations. The listings count home inspectors. Official counts show 3 businesses with payroll classed as building inspection services in 2023.
How much do households in the Fargo, ND-MN metro area spend on rent and homeowner costs?
About $1.6B a year, or $14,219 per household. That is 15% below the U.S. average (an index of 85, where 100 is the U.S. average). For the 11 home inspectors on map listings, housing spending per business is 46% below the U.S. figure. That figure is all rent and homeowner costs, used as a measure of housing demand; it is not money home inspectors take in. It is estimated from the incomes of the 110,387 households in the Fargo metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Fargo, ND-MN metro area compare with the U.S. for home inspectors?
The Fargo metro area has 1.0 home inspectors per 10,000 households, 67% above the U.S. rate of 0.6. The index of housing spending per business is 54, where 100 is the U.S. At the U.S. ratio of home inspectors to household spending, the Fargo metro area would have about 6, against 11 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 36,796 households, against one for every 17,237 across the U.S.
How fast is the Fargo, ND-MN metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Fargo metro area at 269,528 people in 2025, up 7.7% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 110,387 households. The median household income in the Fargo metro area is $76,756 a year, 5% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 18.7% from the 2015–2019 survey, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. The Fargo metro area scores 51 for home inspectors (upper middle), #124 of 243 scored metro areas.
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