A typical Pickstown home is worth roughly $288,000
Builders were permitted 1 new home in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Pickstown?
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89% of Pickstown households own their home
Half of Pickstown’s homes were built before 1991.
South Dakota: 69% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
What it takes to buy in Pickstown
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That’s $2K short of a typical Pickstown home.
A two-bedroom rents for about $970 a month here, $790 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.
A two-bedroom rents for about $970
Renters already here pay a median of $850, 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 (Charles Mix County, SD): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
1 new home permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 1 new home in Pickstown in 2025. Over the past 10 years, Pickstown has permitted 25 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Pickstown gained 29 residents while 15 new homes were permitted: about 1.9 new residents per new home. Building and growth moved roughly in step. Across South Dakota: 1.6 new residents per new home.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 6 | 1 | 5 | $931,000 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $250,000 |
| 2024 | 10 | 3 | 7 | $1.8 million |
| 2023 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $948,000 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $200,000 |
| 2021 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $630,000 |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $200,000 |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $510,000 |
| 2016 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $350,000 |
| 2015 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $577,000 |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $140,000 |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $200,000 |
| 2012 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $410,000 |
| 2011 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $150,000 |
| 2010 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $340,000 |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $250,000 |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $210,000 |
| 2006 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $755,000 |
| 2005 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $595,000 |
| 2004 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $285,000 |
| 2003 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $110,000 |
| 2002 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $350,000 |
| 2001 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $550,000 |
| 2000 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $361,000 |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
Neighbors talk housing
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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.