# Counties in South Dakota by employer firm births, 2023

All 57 values come from U.S. Census Bureau for 2023, so the places are comparable. 9 counties have no value for that period and are not ranked.

- Indicator id: `employer_firm_births`
- Unit: count
- Definition: New employer firms: firms of age zero in March of the year, meaning that every establishment of the firm had its first employees during the previous twelve months. United States: Census Bureau Business Dynamics Statistics, which calls these firms startups.
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics by firm age: employer firms of age zero, all covered industries, nation, states and counties from 1978 (https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty_fac.csv)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/us-census-bureau
- Retrieved: 2026-10-22
- Citation: U.S. Census Bureau. Business Dynamics Statistics by firm age: employer firms of age zero, all covered industries, nation, states and counties from 1978. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty_fac.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-22.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/employer-firm-births/south-dakota-counties

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Minnehaha County | 353 |
| 2 | Pennington County | 238 |
| 3 | Lincoln County | 167 |
| 4 | Lawrence County | 100 |
| 5 | Codington County | 67 |
| 6 | Meade County | 65 |
| 7 | Brown County | 55 |
| 8 | Brookings County | 36 |
| 8 | Davison County | 36 |
| 10 | Butte County | 35 |
| 11 | Union County | 34 |
| 12 | Beadle County | 30 |
| 13 | Yankton County | 29 |
| 14 | Hughes County | 23 |
| 15 | Custer County | 20 |
| 16 | Charles Mix County | 16 |
| 17 | Lake County | 15 |
| 18 | Fall River County | 14 |
| 18 | Hamlin County | 14 |
| 18 | McCook County | 14 |
| 21 | Day County | 13 |
| 21 | Grant County | 13 |
| 23 | Bon Homme County | 12 |
| 24 | Clay County | 11 |
| 24 | Moody County | 11 |
| 26 | Deuel County | 10 |
| 26 | Hand County | 10 |
| 26 | Kingsbury County | 10 |
| 26 | Spink County | 10 |
| 30 | Gregory County | 9 |
| 30 | Roberts County | 9 |
| 32 | Hutchinson County | 8 |
| 32 | Tripp County | 8 |
| 32 | Turner County | 8 |
| 32 | Walworth County | 8 |
| 36 | Brule County | 7 |
| 36 | Douglas County | 7 |
| 36 | McPherson County | 7 |
| 39 | Clark County | 6 |
| 39 | Hanson County | 6 |
| 41 | Aurora County | 5 |
| 41 | Dewey County | 5 |
| 41 | Haakon County | 5 |
| 41 | Marshall County | 5 |
| 41 | Perkins County | 5 |
| 41 | Stanley County | 5 |
| 47 | Jerauld County | 4 |
| 47 | Lyman County | 4 |
| 47 | Potter County | 4 |
| 47 | Sully County | 4 |
| 51 | Campbell County | 3 |
| 51 | Edmunds County | 3 |
| 51 | Oglala Lakota County | 3 |
| 54 | Harding County | 0 |
| 54 | Hyde County | 0 |
| 54 | Jones County | 0 |
| 54 | Ziebach County | 0 |