A typical Plankinton home is worth roughly $115,000
Builders were permitted 1 new home in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Plankinton?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 1.5 years of income
Less than across South Dakota (3.4 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Plankinton home, with $155K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,010 a month here, $270 more than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Plankinton’s typical property tax (1.48% 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 $1,010
Renters already here pay a median of $970.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Aurora 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 Plankinton in 2025. Over the past 10 years, Plankinton has permitted 21 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Plankinton gained 74 residents while 25 new homes were permitted: about 3 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) | 1 | 1 | 0 | $245,000 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $245,000 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $245,000 |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $245,000 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $245,000 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $245,000 |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $575,000 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $200,000 |
| 2017 | 6 | 3 | 3 | $663,000 |
| 2016 | 6 | 3 | 3 | $663,000 |
| 2015 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $380,000 |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $89,000 |
| 2012 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $89,000 |
| 2011 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $248,000 |
| 2010 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $372,000 |
| 2009 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $372,000 |
| 2008 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $245,000 |
| 2007 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $601,000 |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2005 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $605,000 |
| 2004 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $125,000 |
| 2003 | 7 | 1 | 6 | $381,000 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2000 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $93,000 |
Plankinton'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.
69% of Plankinton households own their home
Half of Plankinton’s homes were built before 1979.
South Dakota: 69% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
Neighbors talk housing
What Plankinton 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. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.