# Counties in South Dakota by share of adults with a bachelor's degree, 2024

All 66 values come from U.S. Census Bureau for 2024, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `bachelors_degree_share`
- Unit: %
- Definition: People aged 25 and over whose highest degree is a bachelor's, master's, professional school or doctorate degree, as a percentage of all people aged 25 and over. United States: American Community Survey five-year estimate, where the period shown is the last year of the five-year span.
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B15003: population 25 years and over with a bachelor's degree or higher as a percentage of the population 25 years and over, calculated with stored inputs (https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2024/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/acsdt5y2024-b15003.dat)
- Retrieved: 2026-10-09
- Citation: U.S. Census Bureau. American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B15003: population 25 years and over with a bachelor's degree or higher as a percentage of the population 25 years and over, calculated with stored inputs. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2024/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/acsdt5y2024-b15003.dat. Retrieved 2026-10-09.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/bachelors-degree-or-higher/south-dakota-counties
- CSV: https://invokely.ai/download/rankings/bachelors-degree-or-higher/south-dakota-counties.csv

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Clay County | 45.4 |
| 2 | Lincoln County | 44.5 |
| 3 | Brookings County | 42.5 |
| 4 | Hughes County | 39.1 |
| 5 | Union County | 37 |
| 6 | Campbell County | 36 |
| 7 | Minnehaha County | 35.2 |
| 8 | Pennington County | 34.6 |
| 9 | Lake County | 34.6 |
| 10 | Brown County | 33.8 |
| 11 | Lawrence County | 32.9 |
| 12 | Custer County | 31.6 |
| 13 | Yankton County | 31.4 |
| 14 | Moody County | 30.4 |
| 15 | Harding County | 30.4 |
| 16 | McCook County | 29.9 |
| 17 | Walworth County | 29.6 |
| 18 | Fall River County | 29.4 |
| 19 | Hutchinson County | 28.8 |
| 20 | Brule County | 28.7 |
| 21 | Hand County | 28.4 |
| 22 | Edmunds County | 28.3 |
| 23 | Stanley County | 28.2 |
| 24 | Spink County | 28.2 |
| 25 | Meade County | 27.8 |
| 26 | Jones County | 27.4 |
| 27 | Turner County | 27.3 |
| 28 | Potter County | 27.2 |
| 29 | Beadle County | 27.2 |
| 30 | McPherson County | 26.5 |
| 31 | Charles Mix County | 25.7 |
| 32 | Marshall County | 25.4 |
| 33 | Grant County | 25.3 |
| 34 | Deuel County | 25.1 |
| 35 | Douglas County | 25 |
| 36 | Perkins County | 24.9 |
| 37 | Lyman County | 24.6 |
| 38 | Hamlin County | 24.5 |
| 39 | Sully County | 24.1 |
| 40 | Kingsbury County | 23.1 |
| 41 | Faulk County | 22.6 |
| 42 | Davison County | 22.6 |
| 43 | Hanson County | 22.5 |
| 44 | Gregory County | 22.2 |
| 45 | Day County | 22 |
| 46 | Haakon County | 21.6 |
| 47 | Aurora County | 21.4 |
| 48 | Codington County | 21.4 |
| 49 | Jerauld County | 21.4 |
| 50 | Sanborn County | 21.3 |
| 51 | Hyde County | 20.3 |
| 52 | Butte County | 19.9 |
| 53 | Clark County | 19.7 |
| 54 | Bon Homme County | 19.6 |
| 55 | Mellette County | 19.2 |
| 56 | Corson County | 19 |
| 57 | Dewey County | 18.8 |
| 58 | Roberts County | 18.6 |
| 59 | Bennett County | 18.3 |
| 60 | Tripp County | 17.7 |
| 61 | Miner County | 16.7 |
| 62 | Todd County | 16.6 |
| 63 | Ziebach County | 15.2 |
| 64 | Jackson County | 12.4 |
| 65 | Oglala Lakota County | 11.8 |
| 66 | Buffalo County | 9.9 |