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Housing in Lake

A typical Lake home is worth roughly $340,000

Typical home value
$340K
SD $322K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,120
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,817
SD $2,724

What kind of housing town is Lake?

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

★ What stands out · The homes

92% of Lake households own their home

Half of Lake’s homes were built before 1983.

Owners and renters
Own 92%Rent 8%

South Dakota: 69% own.

1983
typical home built · SD 1980
$1,817
median property tax bill · SD $2,724
48%
of homes are seasonal or vacation homes

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

Affordability

What it takes to buy in Lake

Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$286,000
Typical Lake home $340K

That’s $54K short of a typical Lake home.

The typical home, each month
$2,080
Loan $1,680Tax $300Insurance $100

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,120 a month here, $960 less 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 $1,120

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$770
1 bedroom$960
2 bedrooms$1,120
3 bedrooms$1,490
4 bedrooms$1,880
8%
of households rent · SD 31%
3
renter households

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

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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. 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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