South Dakota Population By County in 2021 (ACS-5Yrs)

Updated on July 2, 2024.

Based on the US Census ACS-5Yrs estimates, in 2021, the total population of South Dakota was 881.79K. Among all South Dakota counties, Minnehaha was the most populated county (194.88K), followed by Pennington (108.71K), and then Lincoln (63.23K).

On the other hand, the least populated counties were: Jones (916), Harding (1.18K), and Sully (1.28K).

The chart and table below shows the population of each county and the percentage of South Dakota population in each county.

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South Dakota Population By County in 2021
South Dakota Population By County in 2021
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County Population % of State Population
Aurora 2649 0.30
Beadle 18959 2.15
Bennett 3411 0.39
Bon Homme 7020 0.80
Brookings 34315 3.89
Brown 38471 4.36
Brule 5247 0.60
Buffalo 1974 0.22
Butte 10167 1.15
Campbell 1548 0.18
Charles Mix 9346 1.06
Clark 3791 0.43
Clay 14816 1.68
Codington 28289 3.21
Corson 3965 0.45
Custer 8360 0.95
Davison 19944 2.26
Day 5487 0.62
Deuel 4283 0.49
Dewey 5343 0.61
Douglas 2838 0.32
Edmunds 4005 0.45
Fall River 6979 0.79
Faulk 2157 0.25
Grant 7550 0.86
Gregory 4004 0.45
Haakon 1868 0.21
Hamlin 6127 0.70
Hand 3061 0.35
Hanson 3429 0.39
Harding 1179 0.13
Hughes 17829 2.02
Hutchinson 7412 0.84
Hyde 1381 0.16
Jackson 2868 0.33
Jerauld 1811 0.21
Jones 916 0.10
Kingsbury 5131 0.58
Lake 11358 1.29
Lawrence 25687 2.91
Lincoln 63233 7.17
Lyman 3746 0.43
McCook 5676 0.64
McPherson 2245 0.26
Marshall 4373 0.50
Meade 29561 3.35
Mellette 1916 0.22
Miner 2293 0.26
Minnehaha 194884 22.10
Moody 6335 0.72
Oglala Lakota 13835 1.57
Pennington 108707 12.33
Perkins 2977 0.34
Potter 2613 0.30
Roberts 10254 1.16
Sanborn 2371 0.27
Spink 6408 0.73
Stanley 2963 0.34
Sully 1279 0.14
Todd 9434 1.07
Tripp 5615 0.64
Turner 8621 0.98
Union 16424 1.86
Walworth 5355 0.61
Yankton 23213 2.63
Ziebach 2479 0.28