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The median home value in Box Elder, SD is $370,689 as of 2026-07-31, up 2.38% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$370,689
Year-over-Year
+2.38%
Population
14,589
Box Elder ranks #5 of 16 South Dakota cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 15.2% above the state's city median of $321,873. It sits in Meade County, where the county-wide median is $400,593.
Median household income in Box Elder is $73,008, so the typical home value is about 5.1× annual household income. This is a simple price-to-income benchmark rather than a monthly payment estimate; it does not account for mortgage rates, down payments, taxes or insurance.
Household income comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates, table B19013 (how the affordability measure works).
Box Elder police recorded a violent crime rate of 350 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 1,193 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Box Elder, that value is $370,689. That's up 2.38% from a year earlier. It is about 15.2% above the typical South Dakota city tracked here.
Homes in Box Elder are cheaper than Meade County as a whole, where the median is $400,593 — a difference of about 7.5%.
Median household income here is $73,008, so the typical home value is about 5.1× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Box Elder police reported 350 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 14,589. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.
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