Bolthole Index county-legal census · checked 2026-10-07
52 of North Dakota's 53 counties — 98% — let an owner build their own home without a licensed contractor. That is the 28th-largest count of any state. The strongest of them on the Bolthole Index is Rolette County (68/100). Every entry below cites the county’s own official source.
Rules change, and cities inside these counties set their own — treat this as a verified starting point, not legal advice. All 2952 counties nationwide → North Dakota: no building codes → North Dakota: no zoning → North Dakota: no codes, no zoning → North Dakota: rv living → North Dakota: no minimum home size → Full North Dakota profile →
52 of 53 North Dakota counties · sorted by Index score
Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. A North Dakota property-tax exemption for qualifying new single-family residential property, including an individual who builds that individual's own residence; …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Qualifying farmers constructing buildings or structures directly used in connection with agriculture/farm operations. The farmer must be defined under Article II and qualify for…
Stark County Zoning Ordinance Compilation Document 2026 ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual's own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota property-tax exemption for builders of certain new single-famil…
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Residential projects where the property owner will occupy the structure. The owner may be listed as contractor only for residential projects when the owner will be the occupant.…
Williams County Development Guide ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. A person who owns a manufactured home or the real property where a manufactured home is to be installed and who performs that person's own first-time manufacture…
North Dakota Administrative Code - Title 108 Article 3 Chapter 1 ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Buildings or structures directly used in connection with agricultural operations and constructed by farmers in the portions of unincorporated Bowman County governed by the count…
Bowman County North Dakota Planning and Zoning Ordinance ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Statewide rule. An individual who builds that individual’s own single-family residence and seeks the North Dakota builder property-tax exemption. The exemption is discretionary …
Property Tax Exemption for Builders of Certain New Single Family Residential Properties ↗Every county here has a full profile — water, land prices, hazard safety, seclusion, and the rest of its building rules. See the North Dakota state page for all 53 counties ranked, or go back to the national list.
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General guidance, not legal advice. Off-grid, building, and land-use rules are often set at the county level and change often. Verify with your county and state before acting. Data reviewed 2026-06-26.
