# Counties in South Dakota by establishment exit rate, 2023

All 61 values come from U.S. Census Bureau for 2023, so the places are comparable. 5 counties have no value for that period and are not ranked.

- Indicator id: `establishment_exit_rate`
- Unit: %
- Definition: Establishments that closed during the year (employees a year earlier and none in March of the year), 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 exit 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 exit 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-exit-rate/south-dakota-counties

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Mellette County | 17.391 |
| 2 | Harding County | 15.789 |
| 3 | Perkins County | 12.935 |
| 4 | Union County | 12.89 |
| 5 | Fall River County | 12.834 |
| 6 | Moody County | 12.709 |
| 7 | Haakon County | 12.587 |
| 7 | Oglala Lakota County | 12.587 |
| 9 | Todd County | 12.281 |
| 10 | McCook County | 11.905 |
| 11 | Custer County | 11.538 |
| 12 | Potter County | 11.299 |
| 13 | Walworth County | 10.959 |
| 14 | McPherson County | 10.714 |
| 15 | Stanley County | 10.628 |
| 16 | Day County | 10.582 |
| 17 | Corson County | 10.39 |
| 18 | Sully County | 10.345 |
| 19 | Roberts County | 10.204 |
| 20 | Hanson County | 10.191 |
| 21 | Faulk County | 10.084 |
| 22 | Turner County | 10.044 |
| 23 | Aurora County | 10 |
| 23 | Bon Homme County | 10 |
| 23 | Deuel County | 10 |
| 26 | Grant County | 9.98 |
| 27 | Clark County | 9.821 |
| 28 | Sanborn County | 9.709 |
| 29 | Hand County | 9.649 |
| 30 | Pennington County | 9.637 |
| 31 | Meade County | 9.53 |
| 32 | Butte County | 9.259 |
| 33 | Lake County | 8.483 |
| 34 | Lawrence County | 8.469 |
| 35 | Brown County | 8.392 |
| 36 | Marshall County | 8.365 |
| 37 | Tripp County | 8.284 |
| 38 | Douglas County | 8.14 |
| 39 | Yankton County | 8.123 |
| 40 | Codington County | 7.891 |
| 41 | Gregory County | 7.879 |
| 42 | Miner County | 7.874 |
| 43 | Minnehaha County | 7.496 |
| 44 | Jerauld County | 7.463 |
| 45 | Lincoln County | 7.278 |
| 46 | Beadle County | 7.259 |
| 47 | Charles Mix County | 7.224 |
| 48 | Edmunds County | 7.175 |
| 49 | Lyman County | 7.092 |
| 50 | Dewey County | 6.897 |
| 51 | Hughes County | 6.873 |
| 52 | Davison County | 6.51 |
| 53 | Campbell County | 6.316 |
| 54 | Clay County | 6.204 |
| 55 | Spink County | 5.995 |
| 56 | Brule County | 5.97 |
| 57 | Brookings County | 5.886 |
| 58 | Hamlin County | 5.435 |
| 59 | Kingsbury County | 5.112 |
| 60 | Hutchinson County | 4.989 |
| 61 | Buffalo County | 0 |