Edgemont, South Dakota.
Typical home $219,035 (+5.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$683 (+147%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,604 +5%
- $208,431$219,035 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,645 +29%
- $169,390$219,035 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.
- Edgemont$1,150
- 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 Edgemont, SD rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Edgemont, Fall River County, South Dakota
Edgemont is a city of 725 people in Fall River County. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Fall River County was 2.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Fall River 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Edgemont is a very small city in the southwestern corner of South Dakota, in Fall River County. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, which is a higher share of owner-occupied homes than in most American towns. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and the year is fairly dry.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with farming, forestry and mining, restaurants and hotels, and shops also providing a good deal of work. Across Fall River County, the largest workplaces include the Veterans Health Administration, Fall River Hospital and the Hot Springs School District. Commutes are short, and unemployment across the county is low and close to where it stood a year ago.
Things to do. Fossil Cycad National Monument is a protected area a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Wind Cave National Park, and to Jewel Cave National Monument, another protected area. Those who like water can head for Angostura Reservoir, also a longer drive away.
Report a mistake
- 374households
- 16 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Fall River County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fall River County had 2,506 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 34° and lows near 4°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 55°. About 36 inches of snow and 16 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Edgemont weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fall River County
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs308
- Fall River HospitalCritical access hospital125FTE
- Hot Springs School District 23-2School district113FTE
- National Park ServiceFederal government · Department of the Interior54
- Edgemont School District 23-1School district33FTE
- Oelrichs School District 23-3School district29FTE
- Office of the Secretary of the InteriorFederal government · Department of the Interior22
Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), hospitals 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
- WildfireVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Edgemont’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 Fall River County.
Edgemont home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Edgemont$219,035
- South Dakota$317,874
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Edgemont 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.
- Edgemont18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Edgemont address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Edgemont — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.