Whitewood, South Dakota.
Typical home $408,700 (-0.1% in a year). Spearfish, SD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,206 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $251 -0%
- $408,951$408,700 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $63,134 +18%
- $345,565$408,700 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.
- Whitewood$2,145
- South Dakota$1,668
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Whitewood, SD fell 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Whitewood, Lawrence County, South Dakota
Whitewood is a city of 879 people in Lawrence County. Half its households earn more than $77,500 a year and half less, against $73,384 across Lawrence County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Lawrence County was 1.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Whitewood is a small city where most homes are lived in by their owners, well above the share you would find in many towns. Incomes run a little higher than across Lawrence County, and few households live in poverty. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month and highs staying well below freezing, while July is pleasantly warm.
Work. People who live in Whitewood work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Lawrence County, the largest workplaces include Monument Health Spearfish Hospital, Black Hills State University and Walmart. Unemployment across the county is low and a little lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Adams Museum & House and the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame offer a look at local history and motorcycling. The Gem Theatre is also a short drive away for an evening out. For time outdoors, the Mystic Miner Ski Resort is a longer drive away and suits the cold winters.
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- 322households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lawrence County had 13,691 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 38° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 56°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Deadwood weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lawrence County
- Monument Health Spearfish HospitalGeneral hospital448FTE
- Black Hills State UniversityUniversity or college418
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters414
- Spearfish School District 40-2School district318FTE
- Northern Hills Training CenterActivity centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities147
- Lead-Deadwood School District 40-1School district137FTE
- Cadillac Jack's Gaming ResortCasinos118
- Monument Health Lead-deadwood HospitCritical access hospital100FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,806 people in all across the county; Whitewood has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- LightningVery high
- WildfireRelatively 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 Whitewood’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 Lawrence County and the Spearfish, SD metro.
Whitewood home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Whitewood$408,700
- 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.
- Whitewood14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Whitewood address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Whitewood — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.