Parkston, South Dakota.
Typical home $243,514 (+9.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$685 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,076 +9%
- $223,438$243,514 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,597 +21%
- $201,917$243,514 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.
- Parkston$1,278
- South Dakota$1,668
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Parkston, SD rose 9.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Parkston, Hutchinson County, South Dakota
Parkston is a city of 1,567 people in Hutchinson County. Half its households earn more than $70,139 a year and half less, against $73,977 across Hutchinson County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Hutchinson County was 1.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Parkston is a small city in Hutchinson County, South Dakota, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run a little below the county's, and the typical home is valued in the low-to-middle range for a town of this kind. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, and summers turn properly warm by July. Moisture comes as a mix of rain and melted snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with building trades, shops and manufacturing close behind. Among the biggest workplaces in Parkston are the Parkston School District, Avera St. Benedict Health Center, a critical access hospital, and Mid-Continental Restoration, a tuck pointing contractor. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home. Unemployment in the county is low and has held steady over the past year.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Lake Andes National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area a longer drive away. Lake Henry, a reservoir, and Silver Lake are also a longer drive from town. Those who like history can head to the Mitchell Site, an archaeological site, also a longer drive away.
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- 765households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hutchinson County had 2,775 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 62°. About 34 inches of snow and 25 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Armour weather station, 19 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Parkston
- Parkston School District 33-3School district96FTE
- Avera St. Benedict Health CenterCritical access hospital89FTE
- Mid-Continental Restoration Co., Inc. South DakotaTuck pointing contractors46
- Agland Coop ParkstonAgricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers34
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 299 people in all. 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
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Parkston’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 Hutchinson County.
Parkston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Parkston$243,514
- 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.
- Parkston10
Zip codes with a Parkston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Parkston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.