South Dakota Death Rate By County in 2020

Updated on June 26, 2022.

According to the US Census Bureau estimates, in 2020, the death rate for South Dakota was 8.9, and the top three counties that had the highest death rate were:

  1. Corson County: 16.28
  2. Fall River County: 15.68
  3. Buffalo County: 15.24

On the other hand, the top 3 counties that had the lowest death rate were:

  1. Hanson County: 3.74
  2. Lyman County: 4.22
  3. Lincoln County: 4.7

Use the interactive visualization and the table below to explore the death rate for each South Dakota county in 2020. You can also find links to the historical death rate for each county below.

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South Dakota Death Rate By County in 2020
South Dakota Death Rate By County in 2020
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County Death Rate
Aurora 8.76
Beadle 10.95
Bennett 8.87
Bon Homme 11.19
Brookings 6.11
Brown 9.12
Brule 9.55
Buffalo 15.24
Butte 11.17
Campbell 6.52
Charles Mix 12.08
Clark 9.28
Clay 6.21
Codington 9.42
Corson 16.28
Custer 10.48
Davison 10.33
Day 15.06
Deuel 9.45
Dewey 13.04
Douglas 12.03
Edmunds 8.86
Fall River 15.68
Faulk 8.24
Grant 12.34
Gregory 13.33
Haakon 6.98
Hamlin 9.79
Hand 8.58
Hanson 3.74
Harding 5.35
Hughes 11.2
Hutchinson 13.32
Hyde 11.65
Jackson 5.41
Jerauld 13
Jones 6.49
Kingsbury 10.51
Lake 8.16
Lawrence 8.82
Lincoln 4.7
Lyman 4.22
McCook 13.54
McPherson 12.63
Marshall 10
Meade 7.96
Mellette 11.07
Miner 10.4
Minnehaha 7.84
Moody 8.26
Oglala Lakota 12.18
Pennington 9.07
Perkins 8.12
Potter 12.06
Roberts 11.1
Sanborn 6.43
Spink 10.54
Stanley 5.12
Sully 7.95
Todd 11.93
Tripp 13.7
Turner 10.67
Union 8.32
Walworth 10.23
Yankton 10.18
Ziebach 11