Wall, South Dakota.
Typical home $317,817 (+2.9% in a year). Rapid City, SD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,018 (+157%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,837 +3%
- $308,980$317,817 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $95,488 +43%
- $222,329$317,817 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.
- Wall$1,668
- South Dakota$1,668
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Wall, SD rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wall, Pennington County, South Dakota
Wall is a town of 699 people in Pennington County. Half its households earn more than $58,984 a year and half less, against $74,517 across Pennington County. Unemployment in Pennington County was 2.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Pennington 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wall is a very small town on the South Dakota plains, home to far fewer people than most places the size of a county seat. Household incomes here run below the county's, while a typical home is valued above what incomes alone might suggest. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and a fair amount of snow falls each year; summers are warm to hot, with July the warmest month.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, the building trades, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Pennington County, unemployment is low and unchanged from a year earlier, and the number of jobs has grown only slightly. The county's largest workplaces include Monument Health Rapid City Hospital, the Rapid City Area School District and Quanta Services, and a small share of residents work from home.
Things to do. Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, a museum, is a short drive away. Badlands National Park, a national park, and the protected Badlands Wilderness beside it are both a longer drive away. Boxelder Creek is another longer drive for those who like to follow a prairie waterway.
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What people in Pennington County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Pennington County had 62,445 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 35° and lows near 9°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 60°. About 30 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wasta weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pennington County
- Monument Health Rapid City HospitalGeneral hospital2,921FTE
- Rapid City Area School District 51-4School district1,574FTE
- Quanta ServicesPower and communication line and related structures construction572
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters530
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters467
- South Dakota School of Mines and TechnologyUniversity or college458
- Douglas School District 51-1School district390FTE
- Menards"all other miscellaneous wood product manufacturing"376
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 126 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,099 people in all across the county; Wall 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 colleges from IPEDS (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
- WildfireRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wall’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Pennington County and the Rapid City, SD metro.
Wall home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wall$317,817
- 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.
- Wall4
Zip codes with a Wall address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wall — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.