# Counties in South Dakota by housing units authorized by building permits, 2025

All 63 values come from U.S. Census Bureau for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `building_permit_units`
- Unit: count
- Definition: Annual number of new privately owned housing units authorized by building permits, from the US Census Bureau Building Permits Survey.
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey: final annual county estimates of new privately owned housing units authorized, including imputation (https://www2.census.gov/econ/bps/County/co2025a.txt)
- Retrieved: 2026-10-10
- Citation: U.S. Census Bureau. Building Permits Survey: final annual county estimates of new privately owned housing units authorized, including imputation. https://www2.census.gov/econ/bps/County/co2025a.txt. Retrieved 2026-10-10.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/building-permit-housing-units/south-dakota-counties
- CSV: https://invokely.ai/download/rankings/building-permit-housing-units/south-dakota-counties.csv

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Minnehaha County | 2,044 |
| 2 | Pennington County | 563 |
| 3 | Brookings County | 357 |
| 4 | Union County | 277 |
| 5 | Custer County | 260 |
| 6 | Lawrence County | 232 |
| 6 | Lincoln County | 232 |
| 8 | Brown County | 169 |
| 9 | Codington County | 142 |
| 10 | Meade County | 135 |
| 11 | Yankton County | 90 |
| 12 | Butte County | 88 |
| 13 | Lake County | 86 |
| 14 | Hamlin County | 71 |
| 15 | Davison County | 53 |
| 16 | Day County | 30 |
| 17 | Hughes County | 29 |
| 17 | Roberts County | 29 |
| 19 | Hutchinson County | 24 |
| 20 | Beadle County | 21 |
| 20 | Clay County | 21 |
| 20 | Moody County | 21 |
| 23 | Brule County | 20 |
| 23 | Charles Mix County | 20 |
| 23 | Grant County | 20 |
| 26 | Bon Homme County | 19 |
| 26 | Gregory County | 19 |
| 26 | McCook County | 19 |
| 29 | Kingsbury County | 18 |
| 30 | Sanborn County | 17 |
| 31 | Turner County | 16 |
| 32 | Potter County | 14 |
| 33 | Clark County | 12 |
| 34 | Deuel County | 11 |
| 34 | Marshall County | 11 |
| 34 | Stanley County | 11 |
| 34 | Tripp County | 11 |
| 38 | Fall River County | 9 |
| 38 | Sully County | 9 |
| 40 | Hanson County | 8 |
| 41 | Douglas County | 7 |
| 41 | Faulk County | 7 |
| 41 | Lyman County | 7 |
| 41 | McPherson County | 7 |
| 41 | Walworth County | 7 |
| 46 | Hand County | 5 |
| 46 | Jerauld County | 5 |
| 46 | Spink County | 5 |
| 49 | Miner County | 4 |
| 50 | Aurora County | 3 |
| 50 | Haakon County | 3 |
| 50 | Jones County | 3 |
| 53 | Mellette County | 2 |
| 54 | Campbell County | 1 |
| 54 | Harding County | 1 |
| 56 | Bennett County | 0 |
| 56 | Corson County | 0 |
| 56 | Dewey County | 0 |
| 56 | Edmunds County | 0 |
| 56 | Hyde County | 0 |
| 56 | Jackson County | 0 |
| 56 | Perkins County | 0 |
| 56 | Todd County | 0 |