Veblen, South Dakota.
Typical home $194,039 (+4.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$24 (+2%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $7,570 +4%
- $186,468$194,039 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.
- Veblen$1,018
- South Dakota$1,668
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Veblen, SD rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Veblen, Marshall County, South Dakota
Veblen is a city of 317 people in Marshall County. Half its households earn more than $64,167 a year and half less, against $78,156 across Marshall County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Marshall County was 1.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Marshall County work in farming, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Veblen is a very small city in Marshall County, in the northeast corner of South Dakota, where farm country stretches out in every direction. Household incomes are below the county's, and a typical home costs less than in many parts of the country. Winters are long, cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July brings warm summer days, and the year's precipitation is modest.
Work. Many residents work in farming, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, or in the building trades. Across Marshall County, some of the larger workplaces are Horton, Inc Britton, which makes oil filters, the Britton-Hecla School District, and Marshall County Healthcare Center, a critical access hospital. Unemployment in the county is low and a little lower than a year ago, though there are slightly fewer jobs than the year before, and the typical commute is short.
Things to do. Lakes are the main draw nearby. Abraham Lake is a short drive away, and Sica Hollow State Park, a protected area, is also a short drive away. Farther out, Tewaukon National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is a longer drive away and suits an outing for the day.
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- 14%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
What people in Marshall County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marshall County had 1,675 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 22° and lows near 3°; warmest in July, with highs near 82° and lows near 62°. About 48 inches of snow and 25 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Roy Lake weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marshall County
- Horton, Inc BrittonOil filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing174
- MarshallDairy cattle farming148
- Britton-Hecla School District 45-4School district71FTE
- Empres Operated By EvergreenNursing homes71
- Marshall County Healthcare CenterCritical access hospital63FTE
- US LBM HoldingsEngineered wood member manufacturing57
- Langford Area 45-5 SchoolsSchool district46FTE
- Rapid Precision MfgMachine shops34
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 630 people in all across the county; Veblen 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
- Strong windVery high
- HailVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- TornadoesVery high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Veblen’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Marshall County.
Veblen home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Veblen$194,039
- 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 Veblen address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Veblen — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.