Wentworth, South Dakota.
Typical home $496,854 (-1.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,584 (+155%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $7,030 -1%
- $503,885$496,854 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $111,691 +29%
- $385,163$496,854 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.
- Wentworth$2,608
- 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 Wentworth, SD fell 1.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wentworth, Lake County, South Dakota
Wentworth is a village of 181 people in Lake County. Unemployment in Lake County was 1.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lake 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wentworth is a very small village in Lake County, South Dakota, where neighbors are likely to know one another by name. Homes here are valued well above what the county's incomes might suggest, and a share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month and highs staying below freezing, while July brings warm summer days.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and farming, forestry and mining. Very few work from home. Across Lake County, some of the largest workplaces are Dakota State University, Manitou Equipment America in Madison, and Madison Regional Health System. Unemployment in the county is low and about the same as a year ago, though the county had slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. Water is close at hand: Milwaukee Lake is in or beside town, and Lake Madison is a short drive away for time on the shore. Lake Herman State Park, also a short drive away, is a protected area for walking and being outdoors. Brant Lake is another lake a short drive from town.
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- 14%below the poverty line
- 1%work from home
What people in Lake County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lake County had 5,142 jobs in 2025, 1.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 25° and lows near 7°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 38 inches of snow and 27 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wentworth Wnw weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lake County
- Dakota State UniversityUniversity or college404
- Manitou Equipment America LLC - MadisonConstruction machinery manufacturing341
- Madison Regional Health SystemCritical access hospital201FTE
- East River Electric Power CooperativeTransmission of electric power168
- Madison Central School District 39-2School district159FTE
- Bethel Lutheran HomeContinuing care retirement communities118
- Global Polymer IndustriesProfile shapes, nonrigid plastics, manufacturing107
- Oldham-Ramona-Rutland 39-6 SchoolsSchool district70FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,459 people in all across the county; Wentworth has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wentworth’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 Lake County.
Wentworth home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wentworth$496,854
- South Dakota$317,874
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Wentworth listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Wentworth14.86%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wentworth22
Zip codes with a Wentworth address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wentworth — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.