Sioux Falls Construction Valuation Surpasses $1.3 Billion In 2025

More and more people are coming to Sioux Falls to live, and that means more and more money is being spent on building places for them to stay, work, and shop.

For the fifth straight year, Sioux Falls surpassed the $1 billion mark for total construction with a total valuation of $1,327,437,573 in 2025. That's the second-best year in the city's history.

That massive total was fueled by a population influx of 5,086 new residents last year, which translates to 2.3% increase, pushing the population of Sioux Falls to 224,676.

Since 2018, the city has grown by 42,176 new residents and added $9 billion in residential and commercial construction.

In 2025, a total of 5,615 building permits were issued across residential and commercial building projects that include new construction, additions, repairs, remodels, and renovations within Sioux Falls.

According to the city, key building insights from 2025 include:

Commercial construction drove permits and valuation as residential construction remained steady for multi-family housing and town houses and slowed for single-family houses.
Commercial valuation was $711.6 million for new construction and $314.2 million for additions, renovations and remodels. Key projects included manufacturing facilities, healthcare expansions and multi-family developments.
In 2025, 17 projects exceeded $10 million. The top three highest-value projects were all greater than $100 million, including CJ Foods at $170 million, Avera’s women’s and children’s expansion at $131 million and Good Samaritan’s Founder’s Crossing at $109 million. Other projects included the Sioux Falls Regional Airport terminal expansion, apartment complexes and the City of Sioux Falls’ new light, power, and traffic facility.
New single-family houses totaled 357, the lowest total in the past 10 years.
Multi-family housing, which includes non-transient housing such as apartments, independent living centers, congregate living facilities and condominiums, added 1,168 units in 2025, a slight decrease from 2024. Industry trends suggest multi-family housing is going through an “absorption” period where the new unit growth slows to allow for tenants to move in to recently built units.
Town house units totaled 403, an increase over the past two years of 344 in 2024 and 331 in 2023.

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Where do People In Sioux Falls Work? The Largest Employers in Sioux Falls

Where do the people of Sioux Falls work? Well, according to the numbers a nearly 50,000 of us work for one of these 24 organizations.

Healthcare and financial services dominate the list, but big retail companies, education, and government are also represented.

Here are the top employers in Sioux Falls according to Sioux Falls Development.

Sioux Fallsian? This is What You Call Someone From These South Dakota Towns

Do you know what a Demonym is? It's what you call the people from a place.

For example, people from South Dakota are called South Dakotans. Your partner who was born in Minnesota was a Minnesotan and your family in Iowa are Iowans. And we are all Americans.

That got me curious about what you would call someone from some of the towns in South Dakota. Are we Sioux Fallsians, Sioux Fallsists, or Sioux Fallsites?

I dug into the research and found a definitive-ish list of the demonyms for Sioux Falls and a few other towns in South Dakota.

Gallery Credit: Ben Kuhns

Worst Parking Lots in Sioux Falls Metro

Let's face it, some of the parking lots in the Sioux Falls metro are pretty hard to navigate. Sometimes it feels as though you're taking a risk driving through them on a busy day.

We made a list of some of the worst parking lots in the Sioux Falls Metro. Be extra careful while guiding your vehicle in these tricky lots.

Is the parking lot you dread driving in the most on this list? Take a look and find out.

Source: Sioux Falls Tops A Billion In Construction…Again