# Counties in South Dakota by establishment entry rate, 2023

All 59 values come from U.S. Census Bureau for 2023, so the places are comparable. 7 counties have no value for that period and are not ranked.

- Indicator id: `establishment_entry_rate`
- Unit: %
- Definition: Establishments that opened during the year (employees in March of the year and none a year earlier), as a percentage of the average number of establishments in the two years. United States: Census Bureau Business Dynamics Statistics.
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics: establishment entry rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010 (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: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Census Bureau. Business Dynamics Statistics: establishment entry rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/establishment-entry-rate/south-dakota-counties

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | McPherson County | 14.286 |
| 2 | Butte County | 14.198 |
| 3 | Hand County | 13.158 |
| 4 | Aurora County | 12.857 |
| 5 | Lawrence County | 12.471 |
| 6 | Custer County | 12.308 |
| 7 | Lincoln County | 12.096 |
| 8 | Dewey County | 11.823 |
| 9 | Fall River County | 11.765 |
| 10 | Deuel County | 11.667 |
| 11 | Meade County | 11.633 |
| 12 | Haakon County | 11.189 |
| 13 | Union County | 11.078 |
| 14 | Jackson County | 10.753 |
| 15 | McCook County | 10.714 |
| 16 | Pennington County | 10.659 |
| 17 | Douglas County | 10.465 |
| 18 | Sully County | 10.345 |
| 19 | Bon Homme County | 10 |
| 20 | Clark County | 9.821 |
| 21 | Hamlin County | 9.783 |
| 22 | Kingsbury County | 9.585 |
| 23 | Day County | 9.524 |
| 24 | Charles Mix County | 9.506 |
| 25 | Miner County | 9.449 |
| 26 | Moody County | 9.365 |
| 27 | Minnehaha County | 9.29 |
| 28 | Codington County | 9.112 |
| 29 | Hanson County | 8.917 |
| 30 | Grant County | 8.782 |
| 31 | Spink County | 8.719 |
| 32 | Lyman County | 8.511 |
| 33 | Davison County | 8.478 |
| 34 | Campbell County | 8.421 |
| 35 | Oglala Lakota County | 8.392 |
| 36 | Tripp County | 8.284 |
| 37 | Beadle County | 8.214 |
| 38 | Roberts County | 8.163 |
| 39 | Perkins County | 7.96 |
| 40 | Potter County | 7.91 |
| 41 | Gregory County | 7.879 |
| 42 | Stanley County | 7.729 |
| 43 | Marshall County | 7.605 |
| 44 | Jerauld County | 7.463 |
| 45 | Turner County | 7.424 |
| 46 | Brown County | 7.343 |
| 47 | Bennett County | 7.339 |
| 48 | Clay County | 6.934 |
| 49 | Brookings County | 6.924 |
| 50 | Hughes County | 6.873 |
| 51 | Yankton County | 6.437 |
| 52 | Hutchinson County | 6.349 |
| 53 | Lake County | 6.199 |
| 54 | Walworth County | 6.027 |
| 55 | Brule County | 5.97 |
| 56 | Todd County | 5.263 |
| 57 | Edmunds County | 4.484 |
| 58 | Harding County | 0 |
| 58 | Jones County | 0 |