Worthing, South Dakota.
Typical home $301,237 (-1.2% in a year). Sioux Falls, SD metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$848 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,557 -1%
- $304,794$301,237 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $67,142 +29%
- $234,095$301,237 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.
- Worthing$1,581
- 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 Worthing, SD fell 1.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Worthing, Lincoln County, South Dakota
Worthing is a city of 927 people in Lincoln County. Half its households earn more than $93,162 a year and half less, against $99,166 across Lincoln County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. Unemployment in Lincoln County was 2.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Worthing is a small city where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and the population is small enough that it runs on a village scale. Residents are somewhat younger than in many small towns, and household incomes sit a little below the county's, with very few people living below the poverty line. Winters are cold and snowy, with January the coldest month, while July is warm and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing and the building trades. Across Lincoln County, the largest workplaces include the Harrisburg School District, Avera on Louise Campus and Walmart. Unemployment is low, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Everything on the list of nearby places is a longer drive away. The Great Plains Zoo is the best known, and the Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science is a museum for a rainy or snowy day. For time outdoors, Skunk Creek is a river, and Gitchie Manitou State Preserve is a protected area where you can walk.
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- 387households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lincoln County had 30,502 jobs in 2025, 2.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 25° and lows near 6°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 62°. About 36 inches of snow and 28 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Canton weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lincoln County
- Harrisburg School District 41-2School district857FTE
- Avera on Louise CampusGeneral medical and surgical hospitals741
- Avera Heart Hospital of South DakotaGeneral hospital504FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters464
- Harvard IntegrationsPanels, prefabricated metal building, manufacturing407
- Johnson FeedGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload345
- Journey Group (Sioux Falls Construction) - Sioux FallsCommercial building construction320
- Tea Area School District 41-5School district286FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 58 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,539 people in all across the county; Worthing has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively 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 Worthing’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 Lincoln County and the Sioux Falls, SD metro.
Worthing home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Worthing$301,237
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Worthing address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Worthing — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.