Mobridge, South Dakota.
Typical home $129,080 (-0.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$354 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $605 -0%
- $129,686$129,080 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $19,270 +18%
- $109,810$129,080 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.
- Mobridge$678
- South Dakota$1,668
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Mobridge, SD fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mobridge, Dewey County, South Dakota
Mobridge is a city of 3,261 people in Dewey County. Half its households earn more than $65,357 a year and half less, against $54,104 across Dewey County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Dewey County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 4.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then other services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mobridge is a small South Dakota city where most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values sit at a modest level. Household incomes run higher than across Dewey County, though a good number of residents still live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn properly warm in July, with moderate rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by other services, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and shops. Across Dewey County, some of the largest workplaces are Mobridge Regional Hospital, the Indian Health Service and the Bureau of Indian Education. Commutes are short, very few people work from home, and unemployment has eased over the past year even as the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. A short drive away, Molstad Village is an archaeological site, and Claymore Creek is a river good for a quiet afternoon outdoors. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the Moreau River and to Selby Opera House, a theatre.
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- 1,478households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 14 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dewey County had 2,348 jobs in 2025, 4.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 27° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 62°. About 31 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mobridge Municipal Airport weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dewey County
- PHS Hospital - Eagle ButteCritical access hospital275FTE
- Indian Health ServiceFederal government · Department of Health and Human Services177
- Mobridge Regional HospitalCritical access hospital143FTE
- Bureau of Indian EducationFederal government · Department of the Interior116
- Jensen Rock & SandConstruction sand and gravel beneficiating100
- Timber Lake School District 20-3School district77FTE
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services27
- Moreau-Grand Electric CooperativeElectric power distribution systems25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 152 people in all across the county; Mobridge has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) and school districts 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mobridge’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.
Mobridge home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mobridge$129,080
- South Dakota$317,874
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Mobridge 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.
- Mobridge24.69%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mobridge27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mobridge5
Zip codes with a Mobridge address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mobridge — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.