Volin, South Dakota.
Typical home $311,732 (+7.9% in a year). Yankton, SD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$898 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,815 +8%
- $288,917$311,732 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,311 +24%
- $251,422$311,732 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.
- Volin$1,636
- 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 Volin, SD rose 7.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Volin, Yankton County, South Dakota
Volin is a town of 158 people in Yankton County. Unemployment in Yankton County was 1.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Yankton County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Volin is a very small town in Yankton County, South Dakota, home to only a few score of people. Few residents live below the poverty line, and homes here are typically worth more than you might expect for a place of its size. Winters are cold and snowy, with January days that stay near freezing and nights well below it, while summers turn warm, with July afternoons that are hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Yankton County, the largest workplaces include Avera Sacred Heart Hospital, the Yankton School District and Hydro Yankton. Unemployment in the county is low and has barely changed over the past year, though the county had somewhat fewer jobs last year than the year before. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. For time outdoors, the James River and Marindahl Lake are both a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Lewis and Clark Lake, a large reservoir, and to Spirit Mound Historic Prairie, a protected prairie site. Together they give a mix of water and open country within reach of town.
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- 3%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Yankton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Yankton County had 12,862 jobs in 2025, 1.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 30° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 64°. About 38 inches of snow and 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Yankton East weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Yankton County
- Avera Sacred Heart HospitalGeneral hospital491FTE
- Yankton School District 63-3School district426FTE
- Hydro YanktonAluminum extrusion ingot, secondary414
- Astec Industries, YanktonAggregate spreaders manufacturing403
- Avera Sacred Heart Majestic BluffsSkilled nursing facilities380
- Royal Canin USADog and cat food, manufacturing380
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters348
- Wilson Trailer YanktonTruck trailer manufacturing340
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,269 people in all across the county; Volin has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Volin’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 Yankton County and the Yankton, SD metro.
Volin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Volin$311,732
- 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 Volin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Volin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.