Mitchell, South Dakota.
Typical home $252,190 (+1.0% in a year), asking rent $960 . Mitchell, SD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$708 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,411 +1%
- $249,780$252,190 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,108 +25%
- $201,082$252,190 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.
- Mitchell$1,324
- South Dakota$1,668
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Mitchell, SD rose 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mitchell, Davison County, South Dakota
Mitchell is a city of 15,660 people in Davison County. Half its households earn more than $58,620 a year and half less, against $66,208 across Davison County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 57% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 43% are rented. Unemployment in Davison County was 1.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mitchell is a small city in Davison County, in the eastern part of South Dakota. Most households here own their homes, though fewer than across many towns, and incomes sit below the county's. Winters are properly cold, with January the coldest month, and summers turn warm in July.
Work. Schools, hospitals and social care employ more residents than any other field, followed by manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Mitchell are VPS Solutions, Avera Queen of Peace and Walmart. Getting to work is quick, with a short typical commute, and unemployment across the county has stayed low.
Things to do. The best known place nearby is the Mitchell Site, an archaeological site in or beside town. A short drive away are Fort James, a fort, and Enemy Creek, a river. For a day on the water, Bitter Lake and Crystal Lake are a longer drive away.
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- 7,305households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 13 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Davison County had 12,474 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 28° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 62°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mitchell North weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mitchell
- VPS SolutionsEngineering services540
- Avera Queen of PeaceCritical access hospital460FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters340
- Graphic Packaging InternationalPaper and paperboard206
- Dakota Wesleyan UniversityUniversity or college198
- LifeQuest624310 vocational rehabilitation services190
- Avera Brady Health and RehabNursing homes169
- Menards"home centers"142
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 27 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,656 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Ice stormsVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mitchell’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 Davison County and the Mitchell, SD metro.
Mitchell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mitchell$252,190
- South Dakota$317,874
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Mitchell listings, and the typical home goes pending in 19 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Mitchell29.12%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Mitchell19
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mitchell87
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mitchell29
Zip codes with a Mitchell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mitchell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.