Pierre, South Dakota.
Typical home $298,211 (+3.1% in a year), asking rent $1,275 . Pierre, SD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$833 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,874 +3%
- $289,337$298,211 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $59,619 +25%
- $238,592$298,211 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.
- Pierre$1,565
- South Dakota$1,668
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Pierre, SD rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pierre, Hughes County, South Dakota
Pierre is a city of 14,091 people in Hughes County. Half its households earn more than $77,672 a year and half less, against $81,395 across Hughes County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Hughes County was 1.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in government, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pierre is the capital of South Dakota, a small city on the Missouri River where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and typical rents and home values sit in the middle range for a city of its size. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm days, and the year is on the dry side.
Work. Government is the largest line of work among residents, followed by schools, hospitals and social care, then shops, restaurants and hotels. Among the biggest workplaces in town are Avera ST Marys, the general hospital, and the Pierre School District. Commutes are short, and unemployment across Hughes County is low, though the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. Lake Oahe, a large reservoir, is a short drive away and gives the town much of its life on the water. Farm Island Recreation Area, a protected area, is also a short drive away, and Fort Pierre Chouteau is an archaeological site nearby. In or beside town, the South Dakota Cultural Heritage Center is a museum worth an afternoon.
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- 5,864households
- 39%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 13 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hughes County had 10,733 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 29° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 62°. About 37 inches of snow and 20 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pierre Regional Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pierre
- Avera St MarysGeneral hospital426FTE
- Pierre School District 32-2School district374FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters374
- Avera Mary HouseSkilled nursing facilities82
- Edgewood PierreHomes for the elderly with nursing care62
- Avantara PierreSkilled nursing facilities53
- Running SupplyRetail52
- Running SupplyDistribution center40
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,405 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of PierreRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pierre’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Hughes County and the Pierre, SD metro.
Pierre home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pierre$298,211
- South Dakota$317,874
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Pierre listings, and the typical home goes pending in 16 days — 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.
- Pierre26.21%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Pierre90
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Pierre20
Zip codes with a Pierre address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pierre — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.