Huron, South Dakota.
Typical home $177,739 (+2.8% in a year). Huron, SD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$445 (+91%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,857 +3%
- $172,881$177,739 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $15,602 +10%
- $162,137$177,739 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.
- Huron$933
- South Dakota$1,668
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 38 years.
Typical home values in Huron, SD rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Huron, Beadle County, South Dakota
Huron is a city of 14,263 people in Beadle County. Half its households earn more than $61,452 a year and half less, against $67,681 across Beadle County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Beadle County was 1.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Huron is a small city in Beadle County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical home costs less than many Americans would expect. The population is younger than in many small towns, and incomes run somewhat below the county's, with a noticeable share of residents living below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, summers warm, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. People in Huron work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in shops, restaurants and hotels. Among the largest workplaces in town are Huron School District, Huron Regional Medical Center and Terex - Huron. Commutes are short, few people work from home, and unemployment in the county is low, though the county had slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Shue Creek is a river a short drive away. Connors Lake is a lake a longer drive away, as is the Huron Wetland Management District, a protected area for walking and watching wildlife.
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- 5,584households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 12 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Beadle County had 8,524 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 26° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 62°. About 44 inches of snow and 23 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Huron Regional Airport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Huron
- Huron School District 02-2School district433FTE
- Huron Regional Medical CenterCritical access hospital272FTE
- Huron Area Center for IndependenceDisability support groups258
- Terex - HuronAerial work platforms manufacturing212
- Coastal DetentionBaseboards, metal, manufacturing138
- Horizontal Machining & MfgFabricated structural metal manufacturing93
- Legacy HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities92
- Coborn's Huron75
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,711 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Hailrelatively high in parts of HuronRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Huron’s 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 Beadle County and the Huron, SD metro.
Huron home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Huron$177,739
- 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 4 Huron 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.
- Huron27.73%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Huron48
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Huron15
Zip codes with a Huron address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Huron — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.