# Counties in South Dakota by employer firms, 2023

All 66 values come from U.S. Census Bureau for 2023, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `employer_firms`
- Unit: count
- Definition: Number of firms in the private nonfarm sectors covered by the US Census Bureau Business Dynamics Statistics. Establishments under common ownership form one firm.
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics: employer firms, all covered industries, nation, states and counties (https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/us-census-bureau
- Retrieved: 2026-10-11
- Citation: U.S. Census Bureau. Business Dynamics Statistics: employer firms, all covered industries, nation, states and counties. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-11.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/employer-firms/south-dakota-counties

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Minnehaha County | 4,724 |
| 2 | Pennington County | 3,201 |
| 3 | Lincoln County | 1,846 |
| 4 | Brown County | 1,052 |
| 5 | Lawrence County | 1,040 |
| 6 | Codington County | 997 |
| 7 | Brookings County | 813 |
| 8 | Meade County | 694 |
| 9 | Davison County | 610 |
| 10 | Yankton County | 599 |
| 11 | Hughes County | 540 |
| 12 | Beadle County | 475 |
| 13 | Union County | 456 |
| 14 | Butte County | 323 |
| 15 | Lake County | 289 |
| 16 | Clay County | 261 |
| 17 | Custer County | 249 |
| 18 | Charles Mix County | 245 |
| 19 | Grant County | 239 |
| 20 | Turner County | 208 |
| 21 | Hutchinson County | 205 |
| 22 | Brule County | 191 |
| 23 | Roberts County | 185 |
| 24 | Fall River County | 178 |
| 25 | Day County | 175 |
| 26 | Hamlin County | 173 |
| 27 | Walworth County | 170 |
| 28 | Spink County | 169 |
| 29 | Tripp County | 162 |
| 30 | McCook County | 161 |
| 31 | Gregory County | 155 |
| 32 | Kingsbury County | 149 |
| 33 | Bon Homme County | 147 |
| 34 | Moody County | 143 |
| 35 | Marshall County | 120 |
| 36 | Deuel County | 115 |
| 37 | Hand County | 111 |
| 38 | Clark County | 108 |
| 39 | Edmunds County | 103 |
| 40 | Stanley County | 99 |
| 41 | Dewey County | 97 |
| 42 | Perkins County | 94 |
| 43 | Douglas County | 81 |
| 43 | Potter County | 81 |
| 45 | Hanson County | 77 |
| 46 | Oglala Lakota County | 67 |
| 47 | Haakon County | 65 |
| 47 | Lyman County | 65 |
| 49 | Aurora County | 64 |
| 50 | Jerauld County | 62 |
| 50 | Miner County | 62 |
| 52 | Sully County | 58 |
| 53 | McPherson County | 56 |
| 54 | Bennett County | 53 |
| 54 | Faulk County | 53 |
| 56 | Todd County | 52 |
| 57 | Sanborn County | 49 |
| 58 | Jackson County | 48 |
| 59 | Campbell County | 45 |
| 60 | Hyde County | 36 |
| 60 | Jones County | 36 |
| 62 | Corson County | 35 |
| 62 | Harding County | 35 |
| 64 | Mellette County | 22 |
| 65 | Ziebach County | 15 |
| 66 | Buffalo County | 10 |