Warner, South Dakota.
Typical home $287,117 (+5.0% in a year). Aberdeen, SD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$797 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,648 +5%
- $273,469$287,117 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $66,169 +30%
- $220,948$287,117 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.
- Warner$1,507
- South Dakota$1,668
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Warner, SD rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Warner, Brown County, South Dakota
Warner is a town of 485 people in Brown County. Half its households earn more than $113,750 a year and half less, against $70,898 across Brown County; 0% of its people live below the poverty line. 95% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 5% are rented. Unemployment in Brown County was 2.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Warner is a very small town in Brown County, South Dakota, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own and households earn well above the county's typical income. Almost no one lives below the poverty line, and a good share of adults have a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest; the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, in banks, insurance and property, and in manufacturing. Across Brown County, some of the largest workplaces are Avera St. Lukes, Aberdeen School District 06-1 and Northern State University. Unemployment in the county is low and has barely changed from a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before, and the typical commute is short.
Things to do. Lords Lake, a lake a short drive away, is the closest place to spend time by the water. Kuhnert Arboretum, a botanical garden, is also a short drive away and suits a quiet walk. For more room to roam, Sand Lake Wetland Management District, a protected area, is a longer drive away.
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- 43%of adults have a degree
- 0%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Brown County had 19,589 jobs in 2025, 1.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 21° and lows near 2°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 60°. About 22 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Aberdeen East weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brown County
- Avera St. LukesGeneral hospital711FTE
- Aberdeen School District 06-1School district561FTE
- 3M Company546
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters403
- Northern State UniversityUniversity or college393
- Sanford Aberdeen Medical CenterGeneral hospital332FTE
- Coborn's160
- Avera Mother Joseph Manor Retirement CommunitySkilled nursing facilities158
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 44 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,809 people in all across the county; Warner has one 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- HailVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Warner’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 Brown County and the Aberdeen, SD metro.
Warner home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Warner$287,117
- 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 Warner address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Warner — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.