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Housing in Warner

A typical Warner home is worth roughly $268,000

No new homes were permitted in 2025.

Typical home value
$268K
SD $322K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,080
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$2,826
SD $2,724

What kind of housing town is Warner?

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

★ What stands out · The homes

95% of Warner households own their home

Half of Warner’s homes were built before 1992.

Owners and renters
Own 95%Rent 5%

South Dakota: 69% own.

1992
typical home built · SD 1980
$2,826
median property tax bill · SD $2,724
1.05%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · SD 1.06%

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

Affordability

A typical home costs 2.4 years of income

Less than across South Dakota (4.3 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$435,000
Typical Warner home $268K

That covers a typical Warner home, with $166K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$1,640
Loan $1,330Tax $240Insurance $80

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,080 a month here, $560 less than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Warner’s typical property tax (1.05% 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 $1,080

Renters already here pay a median of $1,089.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$760
1 bedroom$820
2 bedrooms$1,080
3 bedrooms$1,360
4 bedrooms$1,720
5%
of households rent · SD 31%
9
renter households
$1,089
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Brown 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 Warner in 2025. The last year with any was 2015 (2 new homes).

Single-family
01234 200020052010201520202025
0
new homes permitted in 2025
0
2026 so far (Jan–Aug)
0
homes in the past 10 years
Homes vs. people, 2010–2020
Residents+28
New homes+10

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Warner gained 28 residents while 10 new homes were permitted: about 2.8 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
YearNew homesSingle-family2+ per buildingValue
2026 (Jan–Aug)000—
2025000—
2024000—
2023000—
2022000—
2021000—
2020000—
2019000—
2018000—
2017000—
2016000—
2015220$800,000
2014000—
2013330$600,000
2012220$500,000
2011110$200,000
2010220$484,000
2009000—
2008220$125,000
2007220$325,000
2006220$190,000
2005330$227,000
2004110$100,000
2003220$200,000
2002330$300,000
2001440$75,000
2000220$200,000

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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