Springfield, South Dakota.
Typical home $193,490 (+11.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$478 (+89%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,660 +11%
- $173,831$193,490 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $18,893 +11%
- $174,597$193,490 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.
- Springfield$1,016
- South Dakota$1,668
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 34 years.
Typical home values in Springfield, SD rose 11.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Springfield, Bon Homme County, South Dakota
Springfield is a city of 1,914 people in Bon Homme County. Half its households earn more than $55,714 a year and half less, against $64,435 across Bon Homme County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Bon Homme County was 2.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bon Homme County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Springfield is a small city on the Missouri River side of southeastern South Dakota, with a population that skews older than the country as a whole. Incomes in town run below the county's, and homes are valued at a moderate level. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are cold and snowy, with a warm summer in July.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, farming and manufacturing. Across Bon Homme County, the largest workplaces include the Bon Homme School District, a continuing-care retirement community and St. Michaels Hospital. The typical commute is fairly short, and unemployment across the county is low and unchanged from a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The Springfield Recreation Area, a protected area, lies in or beside town, and the Niobrara River is a short drive away. For a longer outing, Lewis and Clark Lake is a reservoir a longer drive away, and Niobrara State Park is a protected area farther out as well.
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- 348households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Bon Homme County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bon Homme County had 1,680 jobs in 2025, 1.9% 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 86° and lows near 63°. About 37 inches of snow and 26 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tyndall weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bon Homme County
- Bon Homme School District 04-2School district100FTE
- SD,Tyndall-GSS Center-Continuing Care Retirement CommunitiesNursing homes85
- Scotland School District 04-3School district59FTE
- St. Michaels HospitalCritical access hospital56FTE
- POET Research CenterEthyl alcohol, nonpotable, manufacturing51
- Avon School District 04-1School district45FTE
- Landmann-jungman Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital36FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 229 people in all across the county; Springfield has none of its own. 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HailRelatively 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 Springfield’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 Bon Homme County.
Springfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Springfield$193,490
- 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.
- Springfield5
Zip codes with a Springfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Springfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.