Colton, South Dakota.
Typical home $335,771 (+5.9% in a year). Sioux Falls, SD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,052 (+148%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,654 +6%
- $317,117$335,771 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $92,660 +38%
- $243,111$335,771 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.
- Colton$1,762
- South Dakota$1,668
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Colton, SD rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Colton, Minnehaha County, South Dakota
Colton is a city of 738 people in Minnehaha County. Unemployment in Minnehaha County was 2.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Minnehaha County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Colton is a small city in Minnehaha County, South Dakota, where residents tend to be somewhat older than in many American communities. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying well below freezing, while July brings warm days. Homes here are valued above what is typical in many places, and a four-year degree is less common among adults than across the country as a whole.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and banks, insurance and property. Across Minnehaha County, the largest workplaces include Sanford USD Medical Center, Avera McKennan and the Sioux Falls School District. Unemployment across the county is low and has barely moved from a year ago, and most people travel a fair way to their jobs, with only a few working from home.
Things to do. Several lakes lie a short drive away, including Clear Lake, Buffalo Lake and Brant Lake, which suit anyone who likes time by the water. A longer drive brings you to Great Plains Zoo, and to the Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science, a museum in the nearby city of Sioux Falls.
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- 15%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Minnehaha County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Minnehaha County had 139,772 jobs in 2025, 0.9% 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 84° and lows near 62°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Montrose 8N weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Minnehaha County
- Sanford USD Medical CenterGeneral hospital5,225FTE
- Avera MckennanGeneral hospital5,008FTE
- Sioux Falls School District 49-5School district3,273FTE
- Smithfield FoodsPork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants3,136
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,924
- Sanford HealthAdministrative management services1,645
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,220
- Sanford HealthAdministrative management services566
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 312 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 50,506 people in all across the county; Colton has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Colton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Minnehaha County and the Sioux Falls, SD metro.
Colton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Colton$335,771
- 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.
Zip codes with a Colton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Colton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Colton
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 57018 | Colton | 1,495 | — | $309,146 |
| 57016 | Chester | 676 | — | $384,654 |