Sturgis, South Dakota.
Typical home $372,605 (+2.1% in a year). Rapid City, SD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,093 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,796 +2%
- $364,809$372,605 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $72,009 +24%
- $300,596$372,605 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.
- Sturgis$1,956
- 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 Sturgis, SD rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sturgis, Meade County, South Dakota
Sturgis is a city of 7,020 people in Meade County. Half its households earn more than $54,404 a year and half less, against $74,790 across Meade County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Meade County was 2.1% in August 2026, and the county had 7.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Meade 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sturgis is a small city in Meade County, with a population and a median age that sit in the middle of the usual range for towns its size. Household incomes run below the county's, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and plenty of snow, while summers are warm, with July the warmest month and a moderate amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Sturgis are the Meade School District, Monument Health Sturgis Regional, and Legend Suspensions. Unemployment in Meade County is low and unchanged from a year earlier, jobs across the county have grown over the past year, and the typical commute is short.
Things to do. The Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame is in or beside town. A longer drive away are the Adams Museum & House, a museum, and the D.C. Booth Historic National Fish Hatchery, a park. Dinosaur Park, also a museum, is a longer drive too.
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- 3,048households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Meade County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Meade County had 9,206 jobs in 2025, 7.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 60°. About 48 inches of snow and 21 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fort Meade weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sturgis
- Meade School District 46-1School district399FTE
- Monument Health Sturgis RegionalCritical access hospital146FTE
- Legend SuspensionsCar bodies, kit, manufacturing29
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services27
- Compass Group22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 343 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Wildfirerelatively high in parts of SturgisRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sturgis’ 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 Meade County and the Rapid City, SD metro.
Sturgis home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sturgis$372,605
- South Dakota$317,874
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Sturgis listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Sturgis21.06%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sturgis57
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sturgis14
Zip codes with a Sturgis address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sturgis — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.