Trent, South Dakota.
Typical home $321,969 (+13.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$746 (+79%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $37,054 +13%
- $284,915$321,969 since Sep 2025
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.
- Trent$1,690
- South Dakota$1,668
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Trent, SD rose 13.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Trent, Moody County, South Dakota
Trent is a town of 206 people in Moody County. Unemployment in Moody County was 2.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Moody County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Trent is a very small South Dakota town, one of the smallest places most visitors will come across, and daily life here is quiet and close-knit. Homes carry a typical value that is well above what many would expect for a town this size, and the poverty rate is low. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and a good number of people spend a fair stretch of time driving to work. Winters are cold and snowy, with January highs that stay well below freezing, while summers turn warm, with July afternoons that are comfortably warm and a fair amount of rain and melted snow over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Moody County, some of the largest workplaces are T & R Electric Supply Co, which makes lighting transformers, the Flandreau School District, and Dakota Layers, an egg producer. The county's unemployment rate is low and slightly lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs across the county dipped a little last year. A small share of people work from home.
Things to do. The best known place nearby is Pipestone National Monument, an archaeological site a longer drive away. Blue Mounds State Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive away and suits a day of walking and being outdoors. For a change of pace, the Great Plains Zoo is a longer drive away as well.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Moody County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Moody County had 2,552 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 23° and lows near 4°; warmest in July, with highs near 81° and lows near 60°. About 40 inches of snow and 28 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Flandreau weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Moody County
- T & R Electric Supply CoLighting transformers, street and airport, manufacturing232
- Flandreau School District 50-3School district108FTE
- Dakota LayersChicken egg production100
- Empres Operated By EvergreenNursing homes73
- Colman-Egan School District 50-5School district50FTE
- Avera Flandreau HospitalCritical access hospital42FTE
- Bureau of Indian EducationFederal government · Department of the Interior38
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 492 people in all across the county; Trent has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Trent’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 Moody County.
Trent home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Trent$321,969
- 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.
Zip codes with a Trent address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Trent — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.