Goodwin, South Dakota.
Typical home $456,706 (+5.9% in a year). Watertown, SD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,205 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $25,485 +6%
- $431,221$456,706 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,212 +15%
- $398,494$456,706 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.
- Goodwin$2,397
- South Dakota$1,668
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Goodwin, SD rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Goodwin, Deuel County, South Dakota
Goodwin is a town of 147 people in Deuel County. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. Unemployment in Deuel County was 1.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Deuel County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Goodwin is a very small town in Deuel County, South Dakota, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Homes here are valued well above what the typical American home is worth. Winters are long and cold, with January the coldest month and a good deal of snow, while July brings warm days and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, farming and retail close behind. Across Deuel County, the largest workplaces include Tech Ord A Division of AMTEC, Deuel School District and Salona Global Medical Device. Unemployment across the county is low and a little lower than a year ago, though the county has slightly fewer jobs than the year before. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Several lakes lie a short drive away, including Wigdale Lake, School Lake and Round Lake, which suit anyone who likes to fish or spend time by the water. For a day out, the Redlin Art Center, a museum, and Bramble Park Zoo are both a longer drive away.
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- 18 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Deuel County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Deuel County had 1,530 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 21° and lows near 2°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 60°. About 61 inches of snow and 27 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clear Lake weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Deuel County
- Tech Ord A Division of AMTECExplosives manufacturing176
- Deuel School District 19-4School district86FTE
- Salona Global Medical DeviceElectromedical equipment manufacturing38
- Agri PartnersBeans, dry, merchant wholesalers36
- Sanford Medical Center Clear LakeCritical access hospital35FTE
- Clear Lake-TechElectromedical therapy equipment manufacturing32
- H-D Electric Cooperative-Clear LakeDistribution of electric power23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 377 people in all across the county; Goodwin has none of its own. 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- HailVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Goodwin’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 Deuel County and the Watertown, SD metro.
Goodwin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Goodwin$456,706
- 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 Goodwin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Goodwin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.