Davis, South Dakota.
Typical home $349,663 (-4.6% in a year). Sioux Falls, SD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$139 (+8%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Down $16,993 -5%
- $366,656$349,663 since Sep 2025
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.
- Davis$1,835
- South Dakota$1,668
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Davis, SD fell 4.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Davis, Turner County, South Dakota
Davis is a town of 54 people in Turner County. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Davis is a very small town in Turner County, in the southeastern part of South Dakota, where people tend to know one another. Winters are bitterly cold with a good deal of snow, while summers are warm and the rain and melted snow arrive across the year.
Work. Most people work in schools, hospitals and care work, farming, forestry and mining, building trades, or local shops. Joblessness in the county is low, and the county added jobs last year. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most of the country, few people work from home, and most commute a short drive to their jobs.
Things to do. Swan Lake is a short drive away, and it is a lake where people spend time outdoors. Great Plains Zoo is a longer drive away, and the Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science, a museum, is also a longer drive away.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 25 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 27° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 62°. About 30 inches of snow and 27 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Centerville Southeast weather station, 16 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; Davis 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
- HailVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windVery high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Davis’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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.
Davis home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Davis$349,663
- 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 Davis address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Davis — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.