A typical Faulkton home is worth roughly $100,000
No new homes were permitted in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Faulkton?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 1.6 years of income
Less than across South Dakota (4.3 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Faulkton home, with $142K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,040 a month here, $420 more than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Faulkton’s typical property tax (1.13% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
4 of Faulkton’s houses are on the National Register
Half of Faulkton’s homes were built before 1967.
South Dakota: 69% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,040
Renters already here pay a median of $902, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Faulk County, SD): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
No new homes permitted in 2025
No permits for new homes were issued in Faulkton in 2025. The last year with any was 2023 (2 new homes).
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2023 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $900,000 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $565,000 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $335,000 |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $143,000 |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $805,000 |
| 2013 | 11 | 3 | 8 | $1.6 million |
| 2012 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $850,000 |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2002 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $244,000 |
| 2001 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $270,000 |
| 2000 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $270,000 |
Faulkton's permit office didn't report to the Census in 2025, so the 2025 figures are Census estimates.
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
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What Faulkton buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.