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Housing in Roscoe

A typical Roscoe home is worth roughly $74,000

No new homes were permitted in 2025.

Typical home value
$74K
SD $322K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,030
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$813
SD $2,724

What kind of housing town is Roscoe?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Roscoe

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You could afford about
$286,000
Typical Roscoe home $74K

That covers a typical Roscoe home, with $212K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$450
Loan $370Tax $70Insurance $20

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,030 a month here, $580 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.

The homes

100% of Roscoe households own their home

Half of Roscoe’s homes were built before 1955.

Owners and renters
Own 100%

South Dakota: 69% own.

1955
typical home built · SD 1980
$813
median property tax bill · SD $2,724
6%
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.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,030

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$710
1 bedroom$790
2 bedrooms$1,030
3 bedrooms$1,360
4 bedrooms$1,470
0%
of households rent · SD 31%

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Edmunds 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 Roscoe in 2025. The last year with any was 2024 (1 new home).

Single-family
0123 200020052010201520202025
0
new homes permitted in 2025
0
2026 so far (Jan–Aug)
3
homes in the past 10 years
Homes vs. people, 2010–2020
Residents−60
New homes+2

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Roscoe's population fell by 60 even though 2 new homes were permitted. Homes are holding fewer people: households are getting smaller, or more homes are used part of the year. 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—
2024110$500,000
2023110$500,000
2022000—
2021000—
2020000—
2019000—
2018000—
2017000—
2016110$250,000
2015110$100,000
2014000—
2013000—
2012000—
2011000—
2010000—
2009330$302,000
2008110$250,000
2007110$100,000
2006000—
2005110$123,000
2004000—
2003110$32,000
2002110$60,000
2001110$55,000
2000000—

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