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Compare Black Hills Communities

25 towns and unincorporated communities. Pick two to four and the full table appears underneath. Commutes are driving times to the Ellsworth main gate and downtown Rapid City. Median sold prices, where we have them, come from the MLS over the trailing twelve months with the source, window and sale count printed under each figure. Typical price bands are practical search ranges, not medians, and are labelled separately.

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Rapid City and the Ellsworth corridor

Everything within about twenty five minutes of downtown Rapid City or the Ellsworth main gate, where most of the newer inventory, the shortest commutes and the jurisdiction questions about city versus county service are.

Black Hawk
Typical price
Median sold $348,949Black Hills MLS, single family, trailing 12 months, as of October 2026. 48 closed sales.
To Ellsworth AFB
About 30 minutes, the same I-90 run as Summerset just northDriving time and distance, off peak.
To downtown Rapid City
About 12 to 15 minutesDriving time and distance, off peak.
Utility pattern
Mixed, municipal service in town with well and septic outside it
School district
Rapid City Area Schools 51-4 for most addressesAssignment follows the official boundary for the address. Confirm with the district.
4 is the most that fits. Drop one first.Guide
Box Elder
Typical price
$340k to $400kMedian sold $369,900. Black Hills MLS, single family, trailing 12 months, as of October 2026. 184 closed sales.
To Ellsworth AFB
9 min, 2.3 miDriving time and distance, off peak.
To downtown Rapid City
19 min, 10.9 miDriving time and distance, off peak.
Utility pattern
City water and sewer inside the limits
School district
Douglas School District 51-1Assignment follows the official boundary for the address. Confirm with the district.
4 is the most that fits. Drop one first.Guide
Green Valley
Typical price
No published median exists for the community. Closed sales on the specific street are the only figure worth quoting here.
To Ellsworth AFB
About 15 minutes northDriving time and distance, off peak.
To downtown Rapid City
About 6 miles northwestDistance only. Drive time is not measured for this community, so time it from the parcel.
Utility pattern
Mixed, municipal service in town with well and septic outside it
School district
Split between Douglas 51-1 and Rapid City Area 51-4. Address specific.Assignment follows the official boundary for the address. Confirm with the district.
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Rapid City
Typical price
$300k to $450kMedian sold $349,900. Black Hills MLS, single family, trailing 12 months, as of October 2026. 790 closed sales.
To Ellsworth AFB
24 min, 13.8 miDriving time and distance, off peak.
To downtown Rapid City
5 min, 1.5 miDriving time and distance, off peak.
Utility pattern
City water and sewer inside the limits
School district
Rapid City Area Schools 51-4Assignment follows the official boundary for the address. Confirm with the district.
4 is the most that fits. Drop one first.Guide
Rapid Valley
Typical price
About $351,000 average sold, 283 sales over 12 monthsAverage sold $350,670. Black Hills MLS, single family, 12 months through early October 2026, as of October 2026. 283 closed sales.
To Ellsworth AFB
22 min, 10.4 miDriving time and distance, off peak.
To downtown Rapid City
11 min, 5.2 miDriving time and distance, off peak.
Utility pattern
Utility service varies by address. Rapid Valley Sanitary District serves portions of the area, while properties outside district service may use private wells and septic systems.
School district
Mostly Rapid City Area School District 51-4, with portions in Douglas 51-1Assignment follows the official boundary for the address. Confirm with the district.
4 is the most that fits. Drop one first.Guide
Summerset
Typical price
Median sold $445,000Black Hills MLS, single family, trailing 12 months, as of October 2026. 53 closed sales.
To Ellsworth AFB
30 min, 19.2 miDriving time and distance, off peak.
To downtown Rapid City
15 min, 10.0 miDriving time and distance, off peak.
Utility pattern
Sewer collection is provided by the City of Summerset. Water service varies by address and can include Black Hawk Water User District or Diamond D Water in Sun Valley.
School district
Meade 46-1 and Rapid City Area Schools 51-4, split within the cityAssignment follows the official boundary for the address. Confirm with the district.
4 is the most that fits. Drop one first.Guide

What changes

Between Belle Fourche, St. Onge, Green Valley, Newell

The rows below are the ones where these do not read the same. Ordered as the table runs, not by importance.

Region: Belle FourcheNorthern Hills and I-90St. OngeNorthern Hills and I-90Green ValleyRapid City and the Ellsworth corridorNewellNorthern Hills and I-90
County: Belle FourcheButte CountySt. OngeLawrence CountyGreen ValleyPennington CountyNewellButte County
Jurisdiction: Belle FourcheNot recorded townwide in this guide. The address decides whether it is city or county ground.St. OngeUnincorporated. No town government. Lawrence County zones the parcels and the Sheriff patrols them.Green ValleyUnincorporated. No city government. Pennington County zones the lots and the County Sheriff patrols them.NewellIncorporated municipality of Newell, with Butte County outside the limits.
Corridor: Belle FourcheUS-85 and SD-34St. OngeSD 34, with I-90 seven miles southeast at WhitewoodGreen ValleySD 44NewellUS 212 and SD 79
To downtown Rapid City: Belle FourcheAbout 55 to 60 minutesSt. OngeAbout 44 miles, roughly 48 minutesGreen ValleyAbout 6 miles northwestNewellAbout 54 miles, roughly 70 minutes
To Ellsworth AFB: Belle FourcheAbout an hourSt. OngeAbout 45 milesGreen ValleyAbout 15 minutes northNewellAbout 60 miles

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Belle Fourche, St. Onge, Green Valley, Newell

Rows marked as differing are the ones where these do not read alike. Rows without the mark sit on a quiet background because they say the same thing in every column.

The selected Black Hills communities compared on location, housing, utilities, schools, daily errands, mapped subdivisions and the trade each one asks for
Attribute	Northern Hills and I-90Belle Fourche	Northern Hills and I-90St. Onge	Rapid City and the Ellsworth corridorGreen Valley	Northern Hills and I-90Newell
Where it sits
Regiondiffers	Northern Hills and I-90	Northern Hills and I-90	Rapid City and the Ellsworth corridor	Northern Hills and I-90
Countydiffers	Butte County	Lawrence County	Pennington County	Butte County
JurisdictiondiffersCity versus county decides who provides service and who inspects the work.	Not recorded townwide in this guide. The address decides whether it is city or county ground.	Unincorporated. No town government. Lawrence County zones the parcels and the Sheriff patrols them.	Unincorporated. No city government. Pennington County zones the lots and the County Sheriff patrols them.	Incorporated municipality of Newell, with Butte County outside the limits.
Corridordiffers	US-85 and SD-34	SD 34, with I-90 seven miles southeast at Whitewood	SD 44	US 212 and SD 79
To downtown Rapid Citydiffers	About 55 to 60 minutesDriving time and distance, off peak.	About 44 miles, roughly 48 minutesDriving time and distance, off peak.	About 6 miles northwestDistance only. Drive time is not measured for this community, so time it from the parcel.	About 54 miles, roughly 70 minutesDriving time and distance, off peak.
To Ellsworth AFBdiffers	About an hourDriving time and distance, off peak.	About 45 milesDistance only. Drive time is not measured for this community, so time it from the parcel.	About 15 minutes northDriving time and distance, off peak.	About 60 milesDistance only. Drive time is not measured for this community, so time it from the parcel.
Winter drivingdiffers	Out on the acreage the question is who maintains the road in winter, and it is worth asking in writing.	Highway 34 is state maintained and connects three directions. County and private roads off it are a different conversation.	Highway 44 is a state priority. Everything off it is county, and open prairie means blowing snow reclaims a cleared road quickly.	US 212 and SD 79 are state maintained, and the state rebuilt the Nisland to Newell stretch and the south junction in 2025. Off the highway it is open country and wind moves snow.
Housing and lots
Typical pricediffers	$275k to $375kMedian sold $335,000. Black Hills MLS, single family, trailing 12 months, as of October 2026. 91 closed sales.	No figure published. The merged MLS shows one single family sale under a St. Onge address in the two years through early October 2026, at $488,000 on a one to five acre parcel, and one sale is not a price level.	No published median exists for the community. Closed sales on the specific street are the only figure worth quoting here.	A $175,000 median across 27 single family sales in the two years through early October 2026, mostly houses on lots under an acre. Irrigated project ground and dryland price separately.
Housing agediffers	Older homes in town, newer construction on the edges	An 1891 townsite with genuinely old buildings, surrounded by ranch and acreage property of every era.	Mostly late twentieth century through current.	A 1910 townsite, so genuinely old in-town stock with newer building scattered around it.
New construction	Limited, mostly infill and small projects	Limited, mostly infill and small projects	Limited, mostly infill and small projects	Limited, mostly infill and small projects
Acreagediffers	Larger lots and acreage become more common around the edges of Belle Fourche and in nearby rural subdivisions.	Acreage parcels are common here	Some acreage, mostly platted town lots	Acreage parcels are common here
Typical lotdiffers	Generous in town, acreage out past it	Small townsite lots, with acreage and ranch ground around them.	Generous by city standards, with larger parcels toward Radar Hill and Reservoir Road.	Small townsite lots, then irrigated project acreage, then rangeland, in that order as you drive out.
Covenants and HOAdiffersCovenants are recorded per plat. The title commitment lists what binds the parcel.	Not recorded townwide in this guide. Read the recorded documents for the plat.	Few plats here carry recorded covenants	Few plats here carry recorded covenants	Few plats here carry recorded covenants
Utilities and rules
Utility patterndiffers	Mixed, municipal service in town with well and septic outside it	Mostly private well and septic	Mixed, municipal service in town with well and septic outside it	Mixed, municipal service in town with well and septic outside it
Waterdiffers	Municipal water inside the limits, a private well or a district system outside them.Read off the townwide utility pattern in the guide. The service address controls, so confirm the provider before you write an offer.	The Saint Onge Sewer and Water Company serves about 78 connections around the townsite, with a clean compliance record. Parcels outside that system are on private wells. There is no rural water district covering this area.	Not a single system. The Rapid Valley Sanitary District's service area extends past the Rapid Valley boundary and is the likely supplier for much of Green Valley, and there is also a separate Green Valley Sanitary District administered alongside it. Outlying parcels toward Radar Hill and Reservoir Road are on private wells. Confirm per parcel.	Town of Newell municipal water inside the limits, from groundwater, serving about 378 connections. Rural properties are on the Butte-Meade Sanitary Water District or on private wells. Irrigation water from the Belle Fourche Irrigation District is an entirely separate thing from domestic water.
Sewerdiffers	City sewer inside the limits, private septic outside them.Read off the townwide utility pattern in the guide. The service address controls, so confirm the provider before you write an offer.	The water company's name implies sewer service, but I have not been able to verify from the public record which parcels it reaches. Assume private septic outside the townsite and confirm the rest before closing.	District sewer where the district reaches, private septic where it does not. Confirm per parcel.	Municipal sewer inside the limits, billed monthly alongside water. Rural parcels are on private septic.
Short term rentalsdiffers	General zoning and state rules do the work in Belle Fourche. Confirm the lodging use category with city hall for the address before you count on rental income.	Unincorporated Lawrence County, so no municipal ordinance applies. Note that unincorporated Lawrence County declined to require a vacation home rental permit, so there is no county permit to obtain either.	Unincorporated county, so no municipal short-term rental ordinance applies. County zoning and any subdivision covenants govern, and state licensing applies once you rent.	Newell is an agricultural town rather than a tourism town. Short-term rental demand here is hunting season, Rally week and ag events, not year-round visitors.
Schools
School districtdiffers	Belle Fourche School District 9-1Assignment follows the official boundary for the address. Confirm with the district.	Spearfish 40-2 at the townsite, with Belle Fourche 09-1 to the north and Meade 46-1 to the east. Parcel specific.Assignment follows the official boundary for the address. Confirm with the district.	Split between Douglas 51-1 and Rapid City Area 51-4. Address specific.Assignment follows the official boundary for the address. Confirm with the district.	Newell School District 09-2Assignment follows the official boundary for the address. Confirm with the district.
Daily errands
Groceriesdiffers	Full-service grocery options in town include Lueders Food Centers and Lynn's Dakotamart.	Nothing in town. Spearfish is eleven miles southeast and Belle Fourche thirteen northwest.	The Highway 44 corridor and east Rapid City, a few minutes northwest.	A grocery store and a hardware store in town, with Belle Fourche about 25 miles for anything larger.
Healthcarediffers	Monument Health has a clinic in Belle Fourche. Hospital-level care is available in Spearfish.	Monument Health Spearfish Hospital, a 35 bed facility with a 24 hour emergency department, about 18 minutes away.	The Monument Health Rapid Valley Clinic on Elderberry Boulevard for walk-in care, with the hospital in Rapid City.	No hospital or clinic in Newell. Sturgis is about 26 miles, Spearfish about 37, and Monument Health has a clinic in Belle Fourche.
Recreationdiffers	The Geographic Center of the Nation monument, the Tri-State Museum, and the Black Hills Roundup rodeo every Fourth of July week since 1918.	Creek bottoms, hay ground and hunting country, with Spearfish Canyon and the northern Hills half an hour away.	Open prairie, the county land east of town, and the whole Black Hills half an hour the other direction.	A nine-hole golf course, the Newell Museum, the Belle Fourche Reservoir north of town, and hunting in every direction.
The trade
Housing and patterndiffers	A ranching hub with a working main street, mature trees and a rodeo the whole town turns out for.	An 1891 French-Canadian railroad townsite that is now a cattle auction crossroads and an acreage corridor.	Flat prairie subdivisions east of the city, growing steadily, on county rules.	A federal reclamation townsite from 1910 at the center of a 57,000 acre irrigation project, with a sale barn and its own school.
What you gaindiffers	A $335,000 median across 91 trailing twelve month sales, under Spearfish, Sturgis and Deadwood, with acreage out past town.	The cheapest ground in the northern Hills that still puts you eleven miles from a hospital and sixteen from three towns.	More ground for the money six miles from Rapid City, with Ellsworth fifteen minutes north.	A complete small town with its own K through 12 school and irrigated ground around it, at prices the Hills corridor cannot touch.
What you give updiffers	Rapid City is 55 to 60 minutes and Ellsworth about an hour, so this is a commute you pick on purpose.	A three-way school district split you have to verify per parcel, and no services of any kind in town.	A school district line that runs through the community, and a water arrangement that changes street to street.	Seventy minutes to Rapid City, 26 miles to a hospital, and an irrigation district assessment that attaches to the land as a lien.

Northern Hills and I-90Belle Fourche
Northern Hills and I-90St. Onge
Rapid City and the Ellsworth corridorGreen Valley
Northern Hills and I-90Newell

Where it sits

Regiondiffers

Belle Fourche: Northern Hills and I-90
St. Onge: Northern Hills and I-90
Green Valley: Rapid City and the Ellsworth corridor
Newell: Northern Hills and I-90

Countydiffers

Belle Fourche: Butte County
St. Onge: Lawrence County
Green Valley: Pennington County
Newell: Butte County

Jurisdictiondiffers

City versus county decides who provides service and who inspects the work.

Belle Fourche: Not recorded townwide in this guide. The address decides whether it is city or county ground.
St. Onge: Unincorporated. No town government. Lawrence County zones the parcels and the Sheriff patrols them.
Green Valley: Unincorporated. No city government. Pennington County zones the lots and the County Sheriff patrols them.
Newell: Incorporated municipality of Newell, with Butte County outside the limits.

Corridordiffers

Belle Fourche: US-85 and SD-34
St. Onge: SD 34, with I-90 seven miles southeast at Whitewood
Green Valley: SD 44
Newell: US 212 and SD 79

To downtown Rapid Citydiffers

Belle Fourche: About 55 to 60 minutesDriving time and distance, off peak.
St. Onge: About 44 miles, roughly 48 minutesDriving time and distance, off peak.
Green Valley: About 6 miles northwestDistance only. Drive time is not measured for this community, so time it from the parcel.
Newell: About 54 miles, roughly 70 minutesDriving time and distance, off peak.

To Ellsworth AFBdiffers

Belle Fourche: About an hourDriving time and distance, off peak.
St. Onge: About 45 milesDistance only. Drive time is not measured for this community, so time it from the parcel.
Green Valley: About 15 minutes northDriving time and distance, off peak.
Newell: About 60 milesDistance only. Drive time is not measured for this community, so time it from the parcel.

Winter drivingdiffers

Belle Fourche: Out on the acreage the question is who maintains the road in winter, and it is worth asking in writing.
St. Onge: Highway 34 is state maintained and connects three directions. County and private roads off it are a different conversation.
Green Valley: Highway 44 is a state priority. Everything off it is county, and open prairie means blowing snow reclaims a cleared road quickly.
Newell: US 212 and SD 79 are state maintained, and the state rebuilt the Nisland to Newell stretch and the south junction in 2025. Off the highway it is open country and wind moves snow.

Housing and lots

Typical pricediffers

Belle Fourche: $275k to $375kMedian sold $335,000. Black Hills MLS, single family, trailing 12 months, as of October 2026. 91 closed sales.
St. Onge: No figure published. The merged MLS shows one single family sale under a St. Onge address in the two years through early October 2026, at $488,000 on a one to five acre parcel, and one sale is not a price level.
Green Valley: No published median exists for the community. Closed sales on the specific street are the only figure worth quoting here.
Newell: A $175,000 median across 27 single family sales in the two years through early October 2026, mostly houses on lots under an acre. Irrigated project ground and dryland price separately.

Housing agediffers

Belle Fourche: Older homes in town, newer construction on the edges
St. Onge: An 1891 townsite with genuinely old buildings, surrounded by ranch and acreage property of every era.
Green Valley: Mostly late twentieth century through current.
Newell: A 1910 townsite, so genuinely old in-town stock with newer building scattered around it.

New construction

Belle Fourche: Limited, mostly infill and small projects
St. Onge: Limited, mostly infill and small projects
Green Valley: Limited, mostly infill and small projects
Newell: Limited, mostly infill and small projects

Acreagediffers

Belle Fourche: Larger lots and acreage become more common around the edges of Belle Fourche and in nearby rural subdivisions.
St. Onge: Acreage parcels are common here
Green Valley: Some acreage, mostly platted town lots
Newell: Acreage parcels are common here

Typical lotdiffers

Belle Fourche: Generous in town, acreage out past it
St. Onge: Small townsite lots, with acreage and ranch ground around them.
Green Valley: Generous by city standards, with larger parcels toward Radar Hill and Reservoir Road.
Newell: Small townsite lots, then irrigated project acreage, then rangeland, in that order as you drive out.

Covenants and HOAdiffers

Covenants are recorded per plat. The title commitment lists what binds the parcel.

Belle Fourche: Not recorded townwide in this guide. Read the recorded documents for the plat.
St. Onge: Few plats here carry recorded covenants
Green Valley: Few plats here carry recorded covenants
Newell: Few plats here carry recorded covenants

Utilities and rules

Utility patterndiffers

Belle Fourche: Mixed, municipal service in town with well and septic outside it
St. Onge: Mostly private well and septic
Green Valley: Mixed, municipal service in town with well and septic outside it
Newell: Mixed, municipal service in town with well and septic outside it

Waterdiffers

Belle Fourche: Municipal water inside the limits, a private well or a district system outside them.Read off the townwide utility pattern in the guide. The service address controls, so confirm the provider before you write an offer.
St. Onge: The Saint Onge Sewer and Water Company serves about 78 connections around the townsite, with a clean compliance record. Parcels outside that system are on private wells. There is no rural water district covering this area.
Green Valley: Not a single system. The Rapid Valley Sanitary District's service area extends past the Rapid Valley boundary and is the likely supplier for much of Green Valley, and there is also a separate Green Valley Sanitary District administered alongside it. Outlying parcels toward Radar Hill and Reservoir Road are on private wells. Confirm per parcel.
Newell: Town of Newell municipal water inside the limits, from groundwater, serving about 378 connections. Rural properties are on the Butte-Meade Sanitary Water District or on private wells. Irrigation water from the Belle Fourche Irrigation District is an entirely separate thing from domestic water.

Sewerdiffers

Belle Fourche: City sewer inside the limits, private septic outside them.Read off the townwide utility pattern in the guide. The service address controls, so confirm the provider before you write an offer.
St. Onge: The water company's name implies sewer service, but I have not been able to verify from the public record which parcels it reaches. Assume private septic outside the townsite and confirm the rest before closing.
Green Valley: District sewer where the district reaches, private septic where it does not. Confirm per parcel.
Newell: Municipal sewer inside the limits, billed monthly alongside water. Rural parcels are on private septic.

Short term rentalsdiffers

Belle Fourche: General zoning and state rules do the work in Belle Fourche. Confirm the lodging use category with city hall for the address before you count on rental income.
St. Onge: Unincorporated Lawrence County, so no municipal ordinance applies. Note that unincorporated Lawrence County declined to require a vacation home rental permit, so there is no county permit to obtain either.
Green Valley: Unincorporated county, so no municipal short-term rental ordinance applies. County zoning and any subdivision covenants govern, and state licensing applies once you rent.
Newell: Newell is an agricultural town rather than a tourism town. Short-term rental demand here is hunting season, Rally week and ag events, not year-round visitors.

Schools

School districtdiffers

Belle Fourche: Belle Fourche School District 9-1Assignment follows the official boundary for the address. Confirm with the district.
St. Onge: Spearfish 40-2 at the townsite, with Belle Fourche 09-1 to the north and Meade 46-1 to the east. Parcel specific.Assignment follows the official boundary for the address. Confirm with the district.
Green Valley: Split between Douglas 51-1 and Rapid City Area 51-4. Address specific.Assignment follows the official boundary for the address. Confirm with the district.
Newell: Newell School District 09-2Assignment follows the official boundary for the address. Confirm with the district.

Daily errands

Groceriesdiffers

Belle Fourche: Full-service grocery options in town include Lueders Food Centers and Lynn's Dakotamart.
St. Onge: Nothing in town. Spearfish is eleven miles southeast and Belle Fourche thirteen northwest.
Green Valley: The Highway 44 corridor and east Rapid City, a few minutes northwest.
Newell: A grocery store and a hardware store in town, with Belle Fourche about 25 miles for anything larger.

Healthcarediffers

Belle Fourche: Monument Health has a clinic in Belle Fourche. Hospital-level care is available in Spearfish.
St. Onge: Monument Health Spearfish Hospital, a 35 bed facility with a 24 hour emergency department, about 18 minutes away.
Green Valley: The Monument Health Rapid Valley Clinic on Elderberry Boulevard for walk-in care, with the hospital in Rapid City.
Newell: No hospital or clinic in Newell. Sturgis is about 26 miles, Spearfish about 37, and Monument Health has a clinic in Belle Fourche.

Recreationdiffers

Belle Fourche: The Geographic Center of the Nation monument, the Tri-State Museum, and the Black Hills Roundup rodeo every Fourth of July week since 1918.
St. Onge: Creek bottoms, hay ground and hunting country, with Spearfish Canyon and the northern Hills half an hour away.
Green Valley: Open prairie, the county land east of town, and the whole Black Hills half an hour the other direction.
Newell: A nine-hole golf course, the Newell Museum, the Belle Fourche Reservoir north of town, and hunting in every direction.

The trade

Housing and patterndiffers

Belle Fourche: A ranching hub with a working main street, mature trees and a rodeo the whole town turns out for.
St. Onge: An 1891 French-Canadian railroad townsite that is now a cattle auction crossroads and an acreage corridor.
Green Valley: Flat prairie subdivisions east of the city, growing steadily, on county rules.
Newell: A federal reclamation townsite from 1910 at the center of a 57,000 acre irrigation project, with a sale barn and its own school.

What you gaindiffers

Belle Fourche: A $335,000 median across 91 trailing twelve month sales, under Spearfish, Sturgis and Deadwood, with acreage out past town.
St. Onge: The cheapest ground in the northern Hills that still puts you eleven miles from a hospital and sixteen from three towns.
Green Valley: More ground for the money six miles from Rapid City, with Ellsworth fifteen minutes north.
Newell: A complete small town with its own K through 12 school and irrigated ground around it, at prices the Hills corridor cannot touch.

What you give updiffers

Belle Fourche: Rapid City is 55 to 60 minutes and Ellsworth about an hour, so this is a commute you pick on purpose.
St. Onge: A three-way school district split you have to verify per parcel, and no services of any kind in town.
Green Valley: A school district line that runs through the community, and a water arrangement that changes street to street.
Newell: Seventy minutes to Rapid City, 26 miles to a hospital, and an irrigation district assessment that attaches to the land as a lien.

Where this comes from

Commute figures are driving times off peak, from the community guide each card links to. Median sold prices come from the MLS, and each figure carries its own source, window and closing count, because Sturgis, Spearfish and the northern hills report through a different MLS than Rapid City. Under five closings there is no median, and the price row says so. Five to nine closings carries a small sample note. School districts follow the official boundary for the address, and the district office is the only place to confirm an assignment. Short term rental lines are summaries. Read the guide and the current ordinance before you count on rental income.

The filters use these definitions: under $400k is the MLS sold figure for the town, a median where one is published and otherwise the average sold, comes in under $400,000; close to ellsworth is 25 minutes or less to the Ellsworth main gate; close to rapid city is 20 minutes or less to downtown Rapid City; short commute is 15 minutes or less to either downtown Rapid City or the Ellsworth gate; new construction available is the guide establishes active or limited new construction; acreage available is acreage is common or present in the guide; city water and sewer is city water and sewer across the community; smaller market is fewer than 100 closed single family sales in the trailing twelve months; more rural is acreage is common, or water and sewer are not municipal throughout; established housing is the guide classifies the housing stock as established, meaning largely pre 2000; newer housing is the guide classifies a meaningful share of the housing stock as 2000s or later.

Every row here is a townwide summary and a single parcel can read differently. Buyer due diligence should include verifying water and sewer service, school assignment, recorded covenants and HOA obligations, rental rules, legal access, insurance availability and which jurisdiction inspects and permits the work, for the exact address. Confirm with the city or county, the utility or district, the school district office, the title company and your insurer as applicable.

Last updated August 2026

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