Avon, South Dakota.
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to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$895 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- South Dakota$1,668
- United States$1,922
Living in Avon, Bon Homme County, South Dakota
Avon is a city of 586 people in Bon Homme County. Half its households earn more than $62,361 a year and half less, against $64,435 across Bon Homme County. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Bon Homme County was 2.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bon Homme County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Avon is a small city in Bon Homme County, in southeastern South Dakota, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a good deal of snow, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, farming and manufacturing also giving many people their living. Very few people work from home. Across Bon Homme County, the largest workplaces include the Bon Homme School District, a continuing care retirement community, and St. Michaels Hospital. Unemployment in the county is low and unchanged from a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Most of what draws visitors near Avon is water and open land, all a longer drive away. Lake Francis Case is a large reservoir on the Missouri River, and Niobrara State Park is a protected area where the Niobrara River meets it. Fort Randall, a historic fort, is another place to visit within a longer drive.
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- 219households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 1%work from home
What people in Bon Homme County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bon Homme County had 1,680 jobs in 2025, 1.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 63°. About 37 inches of snow and 26 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tyndall weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bon Homme County
- Bon Homme School District 04-2School district100FTE
- SD,Tyndall-GSS Center-Continuing Care Retirement CommunitiesNursing homes85
- Scotland School District 04-3School district59FTE
- St. Michaels HospitalCritical access hospital56FTE
- POET Research CenterEthyl alcohol, nonpotable, manufacturing51
- Avon School District 04-1School district45FTE
- Landmann-jungman Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital36FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 229 people in all across the county; Avon has one 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Avon’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 Bon Homme County.
Avon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
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Zip codes with a Avon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Avon — 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.