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Housing in Iroquois

A typical Iroquois home is worth roughly $156,000

No new homes were permitted in 2025.

Typical home value
$156K
SD $322K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$990
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,514
SD $2,724

What kind of housing town is Iroquois?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Iroquois

Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$286,000
Typical Iroquois home $156K

That covers a typical Iroquois home, with $129K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$960
Loan $770Tax $140Insurance $50

A two-bedroom rents for about $990 a month here, $30 more than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the South Dakota typical property tax (1.06% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $990

Renters already here pay a median of $504, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$680
1 bedroom$750
2 bedrooms$990
3 bedrooms$1,230
4 bedrooms$1,520
20%
of households rent · SD 31%
29
renter households
$504
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Beadle County, SD): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

New construction

No new homes permitted in 2025

No permits for new homes were issued in Iroquois in 2025. The last year with any was 2023 (1 new home).

Single-family
0246 200020052010201520202025
0
new homes permitted in 2025
0
2026 so far (Jan–Aug)
4
homes in the past 10 years
Homes vs. people, 2010–2020
Residents+26
New homes+6

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Iroquois gained 26 residents while 6 new homes were permitted: about 4.3 new residents per new home. Population grew faster than building, so existing homes filled up: a sign of tight supply. Across South Dakota: 1.6 new residents per new home.

Every year as a table
YearNew homesSingle-family2+ per buildingValue
2026 (Jan–Aug)000—
2025000—
2024000—
2023110$244,000
2022000—
2021000—
2020000—
2019110$280,000
2018000—
2017110$100,000
2016110$100,000
2015000—
2014000—
2013000—
2012220$203,000
2011000—
2010110$75,000
2009110$100,000
2008220$175,000
2007660$502,000
2006440$210,000
2005000—
2004000—
2003000—
2002110$180,000
2001000—
2000110$108,000

Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.

The homes

80% of Iroquois households own their home

Half of Iroquois’s homes were built before 1977.

Owners and renters
Own 80%Rent 20%

South Dakota: 69% own.

1977
typical home built · SD 1980
$1,514
median property tax bill · SD $2,724

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

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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. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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