Valley Springs, South Dakota.
Typical home $351,623 (+3.1% in a year). Sioux Falls, SD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,038 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,664 +3%
- $340,959$351,623 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $76,715 +28%
- $274,908$351,623 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.
- Valley Springs$1,846
- South Dakota$1,668
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Valley Springs, SD rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Valley Springs, Minnehaha County, South Dakota
Valley Springs is a city of 885 people in Minnehaha County. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Minnehaha County was 2.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Minnehaha 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Valley Springs is a very small city in Minnehaha County, South Dakota, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Homes are worth more than many people would guess for a town this size, and poverty is less common than you might expect. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and highs staying below freezing, while July brings warm days. Rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, or in banks, insurance and property. Unemployment across Minnehaha County is low and close to where it stood a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs. Some of the largest workplaces across the county are Sanford USD Medical Center, Avera McKennan and the Sioux Falls School District. A typical commute is a modest one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Palisades State Park, a protected area, and Gitchie Manitou State Preserve are both a short drive away, as is the Blood Run Site, an archaeological site. Beaver Creek, also a short drive off, is a river for a quiet walk along the water. For something farther afield, Blue Mounds State Park is a longer drive away.
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- 18%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Minnehaha County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Minnehaha County had 139,772 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sioux Falls Nne weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Minnehaha County
- Sanford USD Medical CenterGeneral hospital5,225FTE
- Avera MckennanGeneral hospital5,008FTE
- Sioux Falls School District 49-5School district3,273FTE
- Smithfield FoodsPork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants3,136
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,924
- Sanford HealthAdministrative management services1,645
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,220
- Sanford HealthAdministrative management services566
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 312 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 50,506 people in all across the county; Valley Springs has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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 stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Valley Springs’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Minnehaha County and the Sioux Falls, SD metro.
Valley Springs home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Valley Springs$351,623
- 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.
- Valley Springs7
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Valley Springs address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Valley Springs — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.