Blunt, South Dakota.
Typical home $163,200 (+1.6% in a year). Pierre, SD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$488 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,630 +2%
- $160,570$163,200 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,845 +23%
- $132,355$163,200 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.
- Blunt$857
- South Dakota$1,668
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Blunt, SD rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Blunt, Hughes County, South Dakota
Blunt is a city of 342 people in Hughes County. Unemployment in Hughes County was 1.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hughes County work in government, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Blunt is a very small city in Hughes County, South Dakota, where people tend to know one another. Homes here are priced well below what many buyers elsewhere would expect, and the winters are cold and snowy while July brings real heat. Precipitation is light overall, in a landscape of open plains.
Work. Many residents work in government, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Hughes County, the largest workplaces include Avera ST Marys, the Pierre School District and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is low and has barely changed from a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Lake Oahe, a large reservoir, is a longer drive away and is the best known place for time on the water. Also a longer drive away is Fort Pierre Chouteau, an archaeological site tied to the area's fur trade past, and Farm Island Recreation Area, a protected area for outdoor time. The South Dakota Cultural Heritage Center, a museum, is another longer drive away for a rainy or snowy day.
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What people in Hughes County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hughes County had 10,733 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 58°. About 40 inches of snow and 19 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Harrold Ssw weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hughes County
- Avera St MarysGeneral hospital426FTE
- Pierre School District 32-2School district374FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters374
- Menards"home centers"98
- Avera Mary HouseSkilled nursing facilities82
- Edgewood PierreHomes for the elderly with nursing care62
- Avantara PierreSkilled nursing facilities53
- Running SupplyRetail52
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,646 people in all across the county; Blunt has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Blunt’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 Hughes County and the Pierre, SD metro.
Blunt home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Blunt$163,200
- 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 Blunt address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Blunt — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.