Chancellor, South Dakota.
Typical home $402,513 (+0.2% in a year). Sioux Falls, SD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,219 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $885 +0%
- $401,628$402,513 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $94,896 +31%
- $307,616$402,513 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.
- Chancellor$2,113
- South Dakota$1,668
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Chancellor, SD rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Chancellor, Turner County, South Dakota
Chancellor is a town of 300 people in Turner County. Half its households earn more than $66,563 a year and half less, against $75,771 across Turner County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Turner County was 1.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Turner County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Chancellor is a very small town in Turner County, in the farm country of southeastern South Dakota. Its residents are younger than in most places, and household incomes run below the county's. Homes here are typically worth a good deal more than the town's incomes might suggest, and few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in farming, the building trades and shops. Across Turner County, the largest workplaces include Pioneer Memorial Hospital and Health, Tieszen Memorial Home and POET Bioprocessing- Chancellor. Unemployment is low and has held steady over the past year, and the county has added jobs. Commutes are on the long side, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow. Within a longer drive are the Great Plains Zoo, the Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science, a museum, and Falls Park, a protected area on the river. Swan Lake is also a longer drive away for time by the water.
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- 127households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Turner County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Turner County had 2,423 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 25° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 28 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sioux Falls Weather Office Airport weather station, 20 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Turner County
- Tieszen Memorial HomeSkilled nursing facilities98
- Pioneer Memorial Hospital and HealthCritical access hospital68FTE
- POET Bioprocessing- ChancellorEthyl alcohol, nonpotable, manufacturing63
- Parker School District 60-4School district62FTE
- NuGen EnergyDenatured alcohol manufacturing60
- Viborg-Hurley School District 60-6School district58FTE
- Irene - Wakonda School District 13-3School district57FTE
- Centerville School District 60-1School district40FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 256 people in all across the county; Chancellor 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively 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 Chancellor’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 Turner County and the Sioux Falls, SD metro.
Chancellor home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Chancellor$402,513
- 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.
- Chancellor6
Zip codes with a Chancellor address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Chancellor — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.