Canton, South Dakota.
Typical home $301,333 (-3.0% in a year). Sioux Falls, SD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$826 (+109%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $9,265 -3%
- $310,598$301,333 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $59,519 +25%
- $241,814$301,333 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.
- Canton$1,582
- South Dakota$1,668
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Canton, SD fell 3.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Canton, Lincoln County, South Dakota
Canton is a city of 3,066 people in Lincoln County. Half its households earn more than $60,850 a year and half less, against $99,166 across Lincoln County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Lincoln County was 2.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Canton is a small city and the seat of Lincoln County, in the southeastern corner of South Dakota. Households here earn less than the county as a whole, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold, with a good deal of snow, and summers are warm.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and shops also providing a share of jobs. Among the largest workplaces in Canton are Canton School District, Sanford Medical Center Canton and Terex Bidwell. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical trip to work is short, though some people work from home.
Things to do. Newton Hills State Park, a protected area, and Lake Alvin are both a short drive away, which makes them easy choices for time outdoors. Farther afield, the Great Plains Zoo is a longer drive, as is the Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science, a museum.
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- 1,409households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lincoln County had 30,502 jobs in 2025, 2.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 25° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 36 inches of snow and 28 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Canton weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Canton
- Johnson FeedGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload345
- Canton School District 41-1School district119FTE
- Keystone Treatment CenterPsychiatric and substance abuse hospitals116
- Sanford Medical Center CantonCritical access hospital78FTE
- SD,Canton-GS Center-Nursing Care Facilities (Skilled Nursing Facilities)Skilled nursing facilities66
- Terex BidwellPaving machinery manufacturing48
- Advanced Ag ProductsFeed supplements, animal, manufacturing31
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 712 people in all. 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Canton’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 Lincoln County and the Sioux Falls, SD metro.
Canton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Canton$301,333
- South Dakota$317,874
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Canton listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Canton29.37%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Canton23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Canton7
Zip codes with a Canton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Canton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.