Langford, South Dakota.
Typical home $229,369 (+5.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $5 (-0%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $11,527 +5%
- $217,842$229,369 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.
- Langford$1,204
- South Dakota$1,668
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Langford, SD rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Langford, Marshall County, South Dakota
Langford is a town of 283 people in Marshall County. Unemployment in Marshall County was 1.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Marshall County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Langford is a very small town in Marshall County, in the northeast corner of South Dakota, where everyone is likely to know one another by sight. Hardly anyone in town lives below the poverty line, and homes here cost less than in much of the country. Winters are cold, with January highs near freezing at best and nights well below it, and a good deal of snow falls over the season. Summers are warm, with July the warmest month, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Most residents work in farming, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, or in the building trades. Across Marshall County, some of the largest workplaces are Horton, Inc Britton, which makes oil filters for vehicles, the Britton-Hecla School District, and the Marshall County Healthcare Center, a critical access hospital. Unemployment across the county is low, though the number of jobs there slipped slightly last year. Most people have a short drive to work, shorter than in many places, and few work from home.
Things to do. The wide-open country around Langford suits time outdoors, and the best known nearby place is Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area a longer drive away. Fort Sisseton, an old fort, is also a longer drive away and gives a look at the region's history. Lynn Lake is one of several lakes within a longer drive of town, and a good choice for a day by the water.
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- 25%of adults have a degree
- 1%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Marshall County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marshall County had 1,675 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 20° and lows near 0°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 58°. About 45 inches of snow and 24 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Britton weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marshall County
- Horton, Inc BrittonOil filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing174
- MarshallDairy cattle farming148
- Britton-Hecla School District 45-4School district71FTE
- Empres Operated By EvergreenNursing homes71
- Marshall County Healthcare CenterCritical access hospital63FTE
- US LBM HoldingsEngineered wood member manufacturing57
- Langford Area 45-5 SchoolsSchool district46FTE
- Rapid Precision MfgMachine shops34
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 630 people in all across the county; Langford has one 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- HailVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- TornadoesVery high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Langford’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Marshall County.
Langford home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Langford$229,369
- 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 Langford address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Langford — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.