Bryant, South Dakota.
Typical home $264,736 (+9.2% in a year). Watertown, SD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$126 (+10%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $22,413 +9%
- $242,323$264,736 since Sep 2025
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.
- Bryant$1,390
- South Dakota$1,668
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Bryant, SD rose 9.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bryant, Hamlin County, South Dakota
Bryant is a city of 471 people in Hamlin County. Half its households earn more than $62,000 a year and half less, against $87,101 across Hamlin County. Unemployment in Hamlin County was 1.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hamlin 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bryant is a very small city in Hamlin County, South Dakota, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Household incomes run below the county's, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Homes here are valued well under what many Americans pay, and winters are long and cold, with a good deal of snow, while summers turn warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, farming and the building trades also employing local people. Across Hamlin County, some of the largest workplaces are Agropur Lake Norden, a cheese manufacturer, the Hamlin School District, and Legacy Healthcare, which runs nursing homes. Unemployment is low, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The area around Bryant is lake country. Cherry Lake, Plum Lake and Willow Lake are each a short drive away, and make easy outings for fishing, boating or a quiet afternoon by the water. For a longer day out, Lake Marsh is a longer drive away.
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- 212households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 4%work from home
What people in Hamlin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hamlin County had 2,703 jobs in 2025, 2.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 23° and lows near 5°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 61°. About 41 inches of snow and 26 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the De Smet weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hamlin County
- Agropur Lake NordenCheese manufacturing440
- Hamlin School District 28-3School district104FTE
- Legacy HealthcareNursing homes71
- Hamlin Building CenterLumber retailing yards70
- Efraimson Electric Inc BryantLow voltage electrical work57
- RiverviewDairy cattle farming52
- GarfieldDairy cattle farming51
- JR DistributingAnimal feeds, prepared, manufacturing49
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 867 people in all across the county; Bryant has two of its own. School districts come 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
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bryant’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 Hamlin County and the Watertown, SD metro.
Bryant home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bryant$264,736
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Bryant address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bryant — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.