Redfield, South Dakota.
Typical home $164,903 (+12.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$516 (+148%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,030 +12%
- $146,873$164,903 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,638 +39%
- $118,265$164,903 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.
- Redfield$866
- South Dakota$1,668
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Redfield, SD rose 12.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Redfield, Spink County, South Dakota
Redfield is a city of 2,214 people in Spink County. Half its households earn more than $58,229 a year and half less, against $70,139 across Spink County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 56% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 44% are rented. Unemployment in Spink County was 2.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Redfield is a small city and the center of Spink County in eastern South Dakota. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values and household incomes both sit on the modest side, with incomes running below the county's as a whole. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and frost and snow common, while summers turn warm in July, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and the building trades, government and farming also employ local people. Among the largest workplaces in Redfield are Legacy Healthcare, Redfield School District and Community Memorial Hospital. Unemployment across Spink County is low and has held steady over the past year, and the county added a few more jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. Cottonwood Lake is a lake a short drive away, and Fisher Grove State Park, also a short drive away, is a protected area suited to a walk or a picnic. Further out, Lake Byron is a lake a longer drive away, for those who want a day on the water.
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- 947households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Spink County had 2,371 jobs in 2025, 2.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 23° and lows near 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 60°. About 23 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Redfield weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Redfield
- Legacy HealthcareConvalescent homes or convalescent hospitals103
- Redfield School District 56-4School district103FTE
- Community Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital76FTE
- Eastern Star Home of South DakotaNursing homes75
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 178 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Redfield’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 Spink County.
Redfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Redfield$164,903
- 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.
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.
- Redfield15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Redfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Redfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.