# Counties in South Dakota by business establishments (QCEW), 2025

All 66 values come from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `establishments_qcew`
- Unit: count
- Definition: Average number of establishments with jobs covered by unemployment insurance during the year, all industries, private and government, from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. An establishment is a single place of business, such as a factory, store or office; a company with several locations has several.
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average establishments, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties (https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/a/industry/10.csv)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/bureau-of-labor-statistics
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average establishments, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties. https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/a/industry/10.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/business-establishments/south-dakota-counties

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Minnehaha County | 10,086 |
| 2 | Pennington County | 5,845 |
| 3 | Lincoln County | 2,680 |
| 4 | Lawrence County | 1,688 |
| 5 | Brown County | 1,528 |
| 6 | Codington County | 1,428 |
| 7 | Brookings County | 1,419 |
| 8 | Meade County | 1,092 |
| 9 | Hughes County | 937 |
| 10 | Union County | 893 |
| 11 | Yankton County | 869 |
| 12 | Davison County | 849 |
| 13 | Beadle County | 680 |
| 14 | Lake County | 505 |
| 15 | Butte County | 483 |
| 16 | Clay County | 475 |
| 17 | Custer County | 430 |
| 18 | Grant County | 381 |
| 19 | Charles Mix County | 377 |
| 20 | Fall River County | 361 |
| 21 | Turner County | 358 |
| 22 | Roberts County | 305 |
| 23 | Hutchinson County | 298 |
| 24 | Hamlin County | 290 |
| 25 | Day County | 278 |
| 26 | Kingsbury County | 268 |
| 27 | Spink County | 264 |
| 27 | Tripp County | 264 |
| 29 | Walworth County | 262 |
| 30 | Brule County | 256 |
| 31 | Bon Homme County | 244 |
| 32 | McCook County | 242 |
| 33 | Gregory County | 228 |
| 34 | Moody County | 214 |
| 35 | Marshall County | 213 |
| 36 | Deuel County | 198 |
| 37 | Clark County | 188 |
| 38 | Edmunds County | 187 |
| 39 | Hand County | 166 |
| 40 | Stanley County | 155 |
| 41 | Dewey County | 154 |
| 42 | Potter County | 144 |
| 43 | Perkins County | 143 |
| 44 | Lyman County | 142 |
| 45 | Douglas County | 134 |
| 45 | Oglala Lakota County | 134 |
| 47 | Faulk County | 129 |
| 48 | Hanson County | 109 |
| 49 | Haakon County | 108 |
| 50 | Jerauld County | 106 |
| 50 | Miner County | 106 |
| 52 | Todd County | 105 |
| 53 | Aurora County | 102 |
| 54 | Sully County | 97 |
| 55 | Bennett County | 96 |
| 56 | McPherson County | 95 |
| 57 | Sanborn County | 89 |
| 58 | Jackson County | 83 |
| 59 | Hyde County | 77 |
| 60 | Campbell County | 76 |
| 61 | Harding County | 69 |
| 62 | Corson County | 65 |
| 63 | Jones County | 58 |
| 64 | Mellette County | 42 |
| 65 | Ziebach County | 30 |
| 66 | Buffalo County | 26 |