Burbank, South Dakota.
Typical home $354,605 (+6.0% in a year). Vermillion, SD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,115 (+150%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,139 +6%
- $334,465$354,605 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $103,098 +41%
- $251,507$354,605 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.
- Burbank$1,861
- South Dakota$1,668
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Burbank, SD rose 6.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Burbank, Clay County, South Dakota
Burbank, in Clay County, had 93 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Clay County was 2.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Clay County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Burbank is a small community in Clay County, in the southeast corner of South Dakota. Winters are colder than in most of the country, and summers are warm, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Shops, and farming, forestry and mining, also give work to people from the town.
Things to do. The National Music Museum is a museum a short drive away, and the Vermillion River is a river also a short drive away. Spirit Mound Historic Prairie, a protected area a longer drive away, is a further option for a day out.
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What people in Clay County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Clay County had 6,112 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 63°. About 28 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Vermillion Southeast weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Clay County
- University of South DakotaUniversity or college1,584
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters234
- Sanford Medical Center VermillionCritical access hospital189FTE
- Vermillion School District 13-1School district188FTE
- Polaris IndustriesGeneral warehousing and storage162
- GolubGrocery stores152
- Sanford HealthNursing homes110
- Hy-VeeSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores82
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,070 people in all across the county; Burbank has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- DroughtRelatively 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 Burbank’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 Clay County and the Vermillion, SD metro.
Burbank home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Burbank$354,605
- 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.
- Burbank6
Zip codes with a Burbank address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Burbank — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.