Harrison TownshipND
A town of 1,734.
Is Harrison Township a good place to live?
The best of Harrison Township’s subject grades are an A− for health and incomes; the weakest is a D for walkability. 3.2% of working residents work locally in Harrison Township, against 39% in North Dakota’s towns and 8% across U.S. towns. Among 24 North Dakota towns, just one has a higher midpoint age than Harrison Township. The biggest park or preserve is Talbott Court Park, at 26 acres. Harrison Township's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 82% of U.S. towns. Harrison Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Harrison Township stand out
Where Harrison Township beats most towns.
How Harrison Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within North Dakota), ordered by how far Harrison Township is from typical.
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Moving to Harrison Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Harrison Township, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Jul 30, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Harrison Township.
Harrison Township ranks healthier than four in five of the country’s towns
Among adults in Harrison Township, 34% have obesity. On the CDC’s 32 measures, Harrison Township is ahead of North Dakota on 4 and behind on 1. Just over a fifth of adults binge drink locally, near the North Dakota town median (22%) and above the median of U.S. towns (16%). Two figures for adults here: 72% had a checkup this year, 8.7% have diabetes.
| Harrison Township | North Dakota towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 22% | 22% | 16% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 72% | 73% | 79% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 8.7% | 8.9% | 12% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 11% | 14% |
| What stands out | Harrison Township | ND |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults with heart disease | 5.1% | 6.1% |
| Fewer adults who have had a stroke | 2.6% | 3.1% |
| More adults sleeping under 7 hours | 39% | 32.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Public schools in Harrison Township fall behind 68% of North Dakota districts
Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dakota Memorial School PrivateLargest high schoolGrades 4–12 | Grades 4–12 | 87 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within ND on state tests and graduation
Young adults are less common in Harrison Township than in North Dakota
Harrison Township is shrinking: down 4.5% since 2020, to 1,734 residents (2025 estimate). Adults 18 to 34 are nearly one in ten residents (25% statewide); adults 35 to 64 are 51% of residents (35% statewide). In Harrison Township, 36% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more.
| Harrison Township | North Dakota towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 18 | 26% | 26% | 22% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 36% | 30% | 29% |
| Aged 65 or older | 14% | 13% | 18% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
48% women, 52% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±2.7 points. Across North Dakota, 48.8% of residents are women.
| Harrison Township | ND | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 9% | 13% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 17.3% | 10.5% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 6% | 11.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 2.6% | 14.2% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 17.4% | 13.2% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 11.7% | 10.1% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 22.2% | 11.4% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 7.8% | 9.6% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 6.2% | 7% | 7% |
| No diploma | 3.5% | 6% | 10.4% |
| High school | 27.4% | 25.5% | 26% |
| Some college | 23.5% | 21.8% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 10% | 14% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 21.2% | 23% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 14.4% | 9.7% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 1,700, single groups can be off by several points
Very low risk in Harrison Township, with cold waves at the top
Harrison Township’s FEMA risk score comes in at 18 of 100. FEMA puts 47% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to cold waves, and 23% to inland flooding. Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in just over four fifths of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Harrison Township has snowy winters and pleasant summers
Summer afternoons peak near 82° in July, and January nights bottom out around 2°; snowfall runs to about 52 inches a winter. Winters in Harrison Township are cold, snowy and summers pleasant, with very little rain.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
More than half of Harrison Township’s working residents commute to Minot
The top destinations are Minot (57%), Bismarck (5%) and Fargo (4%). Only 3% of working residents stay in Harrison Township for work; the rest commute out. Employers in Harrison Township shed 498 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 908. For residents here, the share who live below the poverty line is 5.1%.
| Harrison Township | North Dakota towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 5.1% | 9.8% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 20 minutes | 16 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
0% of Harrison Township is conserved land
9.9 miles of trail wind through 1 park or preserve. In Harrison Township, the concentration of trails is 0.5 miles per square mile.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Talbott Court Park | 0.2 mi | 26 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Harrison Township
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Harrison Township
About 9 of every 100 Harrison Township residents are enrolled in college, about the same as North Dakota.
About Harrison Township
Township in North Dakota, United States
Harrison Township is a township in Ward County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 1,759 at the 2020 census.
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Harrison Township’s neighbors
6 towns share a border with Harrison Township.
| Town | ND rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harrison Township | — | — | C | — | C | A− |
| Minot | #14 | B− | B− | C | C | A− |
| Burlington · Burlington Township | — | — | B | — | A− | A |
| Nedrose Township | — | — | C+ | — | C− | A− |
| Eureka Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Afton Township | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Harrison Township, Burlington and Nedrose Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Harrison Township, Burlington and Nedrose Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Eureka Township and Afton Township aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Burlington Township and Burlington are one community, graded once. Compare Harrison Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Harrison Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Harrison Township, ND expensive?
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.