Astoria, South Dakota.
Typical home $400,773 (+12.4% in a year). Brookings, SD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,209 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $44,278 +12%
- $356,496$400,773 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $106,332 +36%
- $294,442$400,773 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Astoria$2,104
- South Dakota$1,668
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Astoria, SD rose 12.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Astoria, Deuel County, South Dakota
Astoria is a town of 132 people in Deuel County. Unemployment in Deuel County was 1.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Deuel County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Astoria is a very small town in Deuel County, in the farm country of eastern South Dakota, where everyone is likely to know one another. Homes here are valued well above what the county's incomes might suggest, and household incomes across Deuel County are comfortable. Winters are cold, with January highs staying below freezing and nights dropping close to zero, while July brings warm days.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in farming, and in shops. Across Deuel County, some of the largest workplaces are Deuel School District, Sanford Medical Center Clear Lake and Salona Global Medical Device. Unemployment across the county is low and a little lower than a year ago, though the county has slightly fewer jobs than the year before, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Water is the main draw close to town. Oak Lake and Lake Hendricks are both lakes a short drive away, and the Lac qui Parle River, also a short drive away, is a river to walk beside or fish. For a longer outing, Hartford Beach State Park is a protected area a longer drive away.
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- 26 mintypical commute
What people in Deuel County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Deuel County had 1,530 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 20° and lows near 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 60°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Astoria 4S weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Deuel County
- Tech Ord A Division of AMTECExplosives manufacturing176
- Deuel School District 19-4School district86FTE
- Salona Global Medical DeviceElectromedical equipment manufacturing38
- Agri PartnersBeans, dry, merchant wholesalers36
- Sanford Medical Center Clear LakeCritical access hospital35FTE
- Clear Lake-TechElectromedical therapy equipment manufacturing32
- H-D Electric Cooperative-Clear LakeDistribution of electric power23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 377 people in all across the county; Astoria has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Winter weatherVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- HailVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Astoria’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Deuel County and the Brookings, SD metro.
Astoria home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Astoria$400,773
- South Dakota$317,874
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Zip codes with a Astoria address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Astoria — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.