Gettysburg, South Dakota.
Typical home $138,536 (+0.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$63 (+10%) since Feb 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $335 +0%
- $138,201$138,536 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.
- Gettysburg$727
- South Dakota$1,668
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Gettysburg, SD rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gettysburg, Potter County, South Dakota
Gettysburg is a city of 1,104 people in Potter County. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Potter County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in farming, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gettysburg is a small city in Potter County, South Dakota, with a quiet, close-knit feel. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while summers turn warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fairly dry year compared with much of the country.
Work. Many residents work in farming, schools, hospitals and social care, shops, and the building trades. Some of the biggest workplaces in Gettysburg are Avera Gettysburg Hospital, the Gettysburg School District and CHS, a farm supplies wholesaler. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home. Joblessness in the county is low, though the county had somewhat fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Cottonwood Lake is a lake a longer drive away. Beyond that, days in town tend to be unhurried, with the rhythms of a small farming community.
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- 604households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 13 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Potter County had 797 jobs in 2025, 2.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 25° and lows near 5°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 60°. About 39 inches of snow and 20 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Gettysburg weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gettysburg
- Avera Gettysburg HospitalCritical access hospital51FTE
- Gettysburg School District 53-1School district40FTE
- CHSFarm supplies merchant wholesalers30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 130 people in all. 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gettysburg’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 Potter County.
Gettysburg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gettysburg$138,536
- 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 Gettysburg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gettysburg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.