Sisseton, 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 Sisseton, Roberts County, South Dakota
Sisseton is a city of 2,479 people in Roberts County. Half its households earn more than $48,875 a year and half less, against $65,130 across Roberts County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. 51% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 49% are rented. Unemployment in Roberts County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 3.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sisseton is a small city in northeastern South Dakota, and its people are younger than in much of the country. Incomes run well below the county's, and more households than across the country live below the poverty line, while about as many homes are rented as are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a good deal of snow, and summers are warm.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in restaurants and hotels, government and manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Sisseton are the Sisseton School District, Indian Health Service and Coteau DES Prairies, a critical access hospital. Commutes are short, and unemployment across Roberts County has eased a little over the past year even as the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Lake Emma and Lake Martha are both lakes a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Big Stone Lake, a reservoir, and to Sica Hollow State Park, a protected area.
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- 985households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 12 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Roberts County had 3,420 jobs in 2025, 3.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 22° and lows near 4°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 61°. About 48 inches of snow and 25 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sisseton weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sisseton
- Sisseton School District 54-2School district169FTE
- Indian Health ServiceFederal government · Department of Health and Human Services119
- Coteau DES PrairiesCritical access hospital82FTE
- Edgewood Assisted LivingAssisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 153 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sisseton’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 Roberts County.
Sisseton 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.
- Sisseton7
Zip codes with a Sisseton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sisseton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Sisseton
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
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| 57262 | Sisseton | 5,100 | — | $206,528 |
| 56219 | Browns Valley | 697 | — | $136,244 |