Dell Rapids, South Dakota.
Typical home $368,967 (+4.2% in a year). Sioux Falls, SD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,078 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,912 +4%
- $354,054$368,967 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $81,749 +28%
- $287,218$368,967 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.
- Dell Rapids$1,937
- South Dakota$1,668
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Dell Rapids, SD rose 4.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dell Rapids, Minnehaha County, South Dakota
Dell Rapids is a city of 3,996 people in Minnehaha County. Half its households earn more than $100,170 a year and half less, against $76,880 across Minnehaha County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. 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 residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dell Rapids is a small city in Minnehaha County, with a settled, mostly owner-occupied feel: far more homes are lived in by their owners than not. Household incomes run well above the county's, and the town's residents are a mix of ages, with a typical age close to that of the country as a whole. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with January the coldest month and July the warmest, and rain and melted snow adding up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, shops and government. Among the largest workplaces in Dell Rapids are Carstensen Contracting, the Dell Rapids School District and Avera Dells Area Hospital. Joblessness across Minnehaha County is low and little changed from a year ago, and the number of jobs there has grown slightly.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Palisades State Park and Blue Mounds State Park are protected areas, each a longer drive away. Pipestone National Monument, an archaeological site, is also a longer drive away. Closer to the city of Sioux Falls, the Great Plains Zoo is a longer drive as well.
Report a mistake
- 1,551households
- 39%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents 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 24° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sioux Falls Nne weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dell Rapids
- Carstensen ContractingConstruction management, water and sewer line139
- Dell Rapids School District 49-3School district104FTE
- Avera Dells Area HospitalCritical access hospital63FTE
- Sanford HealthContinuing care retirement communities34
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 283 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dell Rapids’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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.
Dell Rapids home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dell Rapids$368,967
- 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 Dell Rapids 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dell Rapids16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Dell Rapids8
Zip codes with a Dell Rapids address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dell Rapids — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.