Pickstown, South Dakota.
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to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$895 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- South Dakota$1,668
- United States$1,922
Living in Pickstown, Charles Mix County, South Dakota
Pickstown is a town of 230 people in Charles Mix County. Half its households earn more than $87,188 a year and half less, against $64,038 across Charles Mix County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Charles Mix County was 1.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pickstown is a very small town on the Missouri River in Charles Mix County, and almost everyone who lives there owns their home. Household incomes run well above the county's, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and snowy, summers are warm, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in government, and in banks, insurance and property. Across Charles Mix County, some of the largest workplaces are the Wagner Community School District, Wagner Community Memorial Hospital and the Indian Health Service. Unemployment in the county is low and a little lower than a year ago, though the county had slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. Lake Francis Case, a reservoir, lies in or beside town, as does Randall Creek Recreation Area, a protected area. Fort Randall, a historic fort, is a short drive away. Karl E. Mundt National Wildlife Refuge is also in or beside town, for those who like to watch birds and wildlife.
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- 109households
- 40%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Charles Mix County had 3,461 jobs in 2025, 2.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 32° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 64°. About 31 inches of snow and 24 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pickstown weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Charles Mix County
- Wagner Community School District 11-4School district161FTE
- Summit ContractingConstrution96
- Wagner Community Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital92FTE
- Platte Health CenterCritical access hospital78FTE
- Andes Central School District 11-1School district76FTE
- Indian Health ServiceFederal government · Department of Health and Human Services74
- Platte - Geddes School District 11-5School district73FTE
- American Healthcare AssociationSkilled nursing facilities57
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 374 people in all across the county; Pickstown has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pickstown’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.
Pickstown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
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Zip codes with a Pickstown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pickstown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.