Lemmon, South Dakota.
Typical home $115,498 (-0.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$360 (+146%) since Feb 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $756 -1%
- $116,254$115,498 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,526 +38%
- $83,972$115,498 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.
- Lemmon$606
- South Dakota$1,668
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Lemmon, SD fell 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lemmon, Perkins County, South Dakota
Lemmon is a city of 1,160 people in Perkins County. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Perkins County was 2.0% in August 2026, and the county had 3.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lemmon is a small city in Perkins County, in the northwest of South Dakota. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. A smaller share of adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and some residents work from home. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow, while summers turn properly warm in July, and the year brings a fairly dry total of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and others in manufacturing, the building trades, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. The largest workplaces in Lemmon include the Lemmon School District, Five Counties Nursing Home and CHS. Unemployment across Perkins County is low, though the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. Lemmon Petrified Park is a museum in or beside town. A longer drive away are Cedar River National Grassland, a protected area of open prairie, and Shadehill Reservoir, a reservoir for boating and fishing. The Grand River also lies a longer drive away.
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- 544households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Perkins County had 1,076 jobs in 2025, 3.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 59°. About 42 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lemmon weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lemmon
- Lemmon School District 52-4School district46FTE
- Five Counties Nursing HomeSkilled nursing facilities35
- 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, 65 people in all. School districts come 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- HailRelatively 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 Lemmon’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 Perkins County.
Lemmon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lemmon$115,498
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lemmon18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Lemmon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lemmon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.