Colman, South Dakota.
Typical home $369,339 (+8.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,212 (+167%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $27,645 +8%
- $341,695$369,339 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $112,521 +44%
- $256,818$369,339 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.
- Colman$1,939
- 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 Colman, SD rose 8.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Colman, Moody County, South Dakota
Colman is a city of 634 people in Moody County. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Moody County was 2.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Colman is a small city in Moody County, South Dakota, and most homes in town are lived in by their owners. Typical home values run high for a town of its size, and a share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and snow falls often, while July brings warm days and a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and government also employing many. Some people work from home. Across Moody County, some of the largest workplaces are T & R Electric Supply Co, Flandreau School District and Avera Flandreau Hospital.
Things to do. Several lakes sit a short drive away, including Brant Lake, Milwaukee Lake and Round Lake, which suit anyone who likes time on the water. For a longer drive, Split Rock Creek State Park is a protected area, and Pipestone National Monument is an archaeological site.
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- 353households
- 12%below the poverty line
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Moody County had 2,552 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer 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 83° and lows near 61°. About 38 inches of snow and 27 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wentworth Wnw weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Moody County
- T & R Electric Supply CoLighting transformers, street and airport, manufacturing232
- Flandreau School District 50-3School district108FTE
- Dakota LayersChicken egg production100
- Empres Operated By EvergreenNursing homes73
- Colman-Egan School District 50-5School district50FTE
- Avera Flandreau HospitalCritical access hospital42FTE
- Bureau of Indian EducationFederal government · Department of the Interior38
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 492 people in all across the county; Colman has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Colman’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 Moody County.
Colman home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Colman$369,339
- 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.
- Colman5
Zip codes with a Colman address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Colman — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.