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Housing in Summit

A typical Summit home is worth roughly $98,000

No new homes were permitted in 2025.

Typical home value
$98K
SD $322K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,010
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$1,453
SD $2,724

What kind of housing town is Summit?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

What it takes to buy in Summit

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You could afford about
$286,000
Typical Summit home $98K

That covers a typical Summit home, with $188K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$600
Loan $490Tax $90Insurance $30

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,010 a month here, $410 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

65% of Summit households own their home

Half of Summit’s homes were built before 1938.

Owners and renters
Own 65%Rent 35%

South Dakota: 69% own.

1938
typical home built · SD 1980
$1,453
median property tax bill · SD $2,724
1%
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 $1,010

Renters already here pay a median of $763, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$700
1 bedroom$840
2 bedrooms$1,010
3 bedrooms$1,360
4 bedrooms$1,660
35%
of households rent · SD 31%
38
renter households
$763
median rent paid today · Census

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.

New construction

No new homes permitted in 2025

No permits for new homes were issued in Summit in 2025. The last year with any was 2007 (2 new homes).

Single-family
012 200020052010201520202025
0
new homes permitted in 2025
0
2026 so far (Jan–Aug)
0
homes in the past 10 years
Every year as a table
YearNew homesSingle-family2+ per buildingValue
2026 (Jan–Aug)000—
2025000—
2024000—
2023000—
2022000—
2021000—
2020000—
2019000—
2018000—
2017000—
2016000—
2015000—
2014000—
2013000—
2012000—
2011000—
2010000—
2009000—
2008000—
2007220$316,000
2006220$316,000
2005000—
2004000—
2003000—
2002000—
2001000—
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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