Martin, South Dakota.
Typical home $175,453 (+5.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$30 (+3%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $9,629 +6%
- $165,824$175,453 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.
- Martin$921
- South Dakota$1,668
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Martin, SD rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Martin, Bennett County, South Dakota
Martin is a city of 938 people in Bennett County. Unemployment in Bennett County was 2.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bennett County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Martin is a small city in Bennett County, South Dakota, home to a small community at the last full count. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn properly warm by July. Rain and melted snow add up to a modest amount over the year, and a good share of residents hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, farming and ranching, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Bennett County, the largest workplaces are the Bennett County School District, Bennett County Hospital and Lacreek Electric Association. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, and the number of jobs there has dipped slightly.
Things to do. The Inland Theater is in or beside town, a local theatre for an evening out. A short drive away are Lacreek National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, and Deadmans Lake. Farther afield, a longer drive takes you to Bowring Ranch State Historical Park, a protected area with a historical focus.
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- 313households
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 7%work from home
What people in Bennett County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bennett County had 844 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 13°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 59°. About 48 inches of snow and 21 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Martin weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bennett County
- Bennett County School District 03-1School district84FTE
- Bennett County HospitalCritical access hospital72FTE
- Lacreek Electric AssociationDistribution of electric power28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 28 people in all across the county; Martin 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 wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Martin’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Bennett County.
Martin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Martin$175,453
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Martin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Martin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.