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Hill City city, South Dakota: commercial real estate data.
Hill City city is a Census city of 834 people across 1.31 square miles of land, in Pennington County. Median household income is $95,385, 73.9 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 5 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $968,100.
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Hill City
What Hill City is
- Census place typecity
- Land area1.31 sq mi
- Water area0.01 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land636 plus or minus 174
- County holding the largest share of its areaPennington County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hill City
How many people live in Hill City
- Population834 plus or minus 228
- Median age34.2 plus or minus 12.1
- Population under 18267 plus or minus 84
- Share under 1832.0 percent
- Population 65 and over95 plus or minus 50
- Share 65 and over11.4 percent plus or minus 5.1
- Households280 plus or minus 68
- Family households221 plus or minus 62
- Share of households that are families78.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hill City
Income and work in Hill City
- Median household income$95,385
- Per capita income$30,756
- Civilian labor force452 plus or minus 147
- Employed452 plus or minus 147
- Unemployed0
- Unemployment rate0.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over522 plus or minus 139
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher98.1 percent plus or minus 34.2
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher34.7 percent plus or minus 8.8
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree10.5 percent plus or minus 5.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hill City
Housing in Hill City
- Housing units373 plus or minus 76
- Occupied units280 plus or minus 68
- Vacant units93 plus or minus 44
- Vacancy rate24.9 percent plus or minus 10.6
- Owner occupied207 plus or minus 63
- Renter occupied73 plus or minus 34
- Ownership rate73.9 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$286,200
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,345 plus or minus $293
- Annual rent as a share of median income16.9 percent plus or minus 4.5
- Single family units283 plus or minus 68
- Share single family75.9 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more31 plus or minus 24
- Share in buildings of two or more8.3 percent plus or minus 6.1
- Mobile homes59 plus or minus 30
- Median year structure built1993
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hill City
How Hill City gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute393 plus or minus 129
- Commuting under 15 minutes195 plus or minus 87
- Share commuting under 15 minutes49.6 percent plus or minus 15.0
- Commuting 30 minutes or more124 plus or minus 52
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more31.6 percent plus or minus 8.3
- Drove alone76.7 percent
- Carpooled2.8 percent plus or minus 3.4
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked11.7 percent plus or minus 7.5
- Worked from home8.4 percent plus or minus 7.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Hill City
SBA 7(a) lending to Hill City borrowers
- Approvals5
- Gross approval$968,100
- Average approval$193,620
- Median approval$55,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$762,500
- Largest approval$762,500
- Jobs supported46
- Jobs per approval9.2
- Loans with a final outcome4
- Paid in full4
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more20.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders4
- Distinct industries by NAICS4
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 4 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Hill City
SBA 504 lending to Hill City borrowers
- Approvals8
- Gross approval$6,921,000
- Average approval$865,125
- Median approval$650,000
- Largest approval$2,244,000
- Jobs supported68
- Loans with a final outcome4
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Distinct CDCs3
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Pennington County, not Hill City
Pennington County context, not Hill City figures
These are Pennington County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Hill City measurements.
- Establishments in Pennington County4,137
- Employment at those establishments, Pennington County52,402
- Covered employment, Pennington County62,114
- Average annual pay, Pennington County$57,286
- Average weekly wage, Pennington County$1,102
- Housing units permitted, Pennington County1,183
- Of those, single family, Pennington County447
- County product, 2024, Pennington County$8,688,330,000
- County product change over the prior year, Pennington County5.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Pennington County$79,958
Every figure in this section is published for Pennington County as a whole and is not a measurement of Hill City. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Hill City questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Hill City, South Dakota?
834, in 280 households. Hill City city covers 1.31 square miles of land, which is 636 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Hill City in?
Pennington County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Hill City?
$95,385. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $286,200. Median gross rent is $1,345 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Hill City businesses?
5 7(a) approvals totalling $968,100, across 4 lenders, median approval $55,000, plus 8 504 approvals worth $6.9 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Hill City, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Hill City borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Hill City. only 4 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Are the county figures on this page Hill City figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Pennington County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Hill City.
Is zoning published for Hill City?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.