# Counties in South Dakota by gini index, 2024

All 66 values come from U.S. Census Bureau for 2024, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `gini_index`
- Unit: index
- Definition: Income inequality on a 0 to 100 scale, where 0 is perfect equality.
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B19083: Gini index of household income inequality (coefficient multiplied by 100) (https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2024/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/acsdt5y2024-b19083.dat)
- Retrieved: 2026-10-10
- Citation: U.S. Census Bureau. American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B19083: Gini index of household income inequality (coefficient multiplied by 100). https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2024/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/acsdt5y2024-b19083.dat. Retrieved 2026-10-10.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/gini/south-dakota-counties
- CSV: https://invokely.ai/download/rankings/gini/south-dakota-counties.csv

| Rank | Place | index |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Corson County | 53.2 |
| 2 | McPherson County | 52.6 |
| 3 | Ziebach County | 52.4 |
| 4 | Miner County | 52.1 |
| 5 | Perkins County | 52 |
| 6 | Jackson County | 51.8 |
| 7 | Todd County | 50.9 |
| 8 | Lyman County | 50.5 |
| 9 | Oglala Lakota County | 50.5 |
| 10 | Faulk County | 50.3 |
| 11 | Mellette County | 50.1 |
| 12 | Buffalo County | 49.5 |
| 13 | Clay County | 48 |
| 14 | Campbell County | 47.4 |
| 15 | Hand County | 47.1 |
| 16 | Custer County | 47.1 |
| 17 | Union County | 47 |
| 18 | Edmunds County | 47 |
| 19 | Lake County | 46.9 |
| 20 | Jerauld County | 46.8 |
| 21 | Charles Mix County | 46.1 |
| 22 | Pennington County | 46 |
| 23 | Brown County | 45.9 |
| 24 | Day County | 45.8 |
| 25 | Butte County | 45.7 |
| 26 | Lawrence County | 45.6 |
| 27 | Douglas County | 45.5 |
| 28 | Dewey County | 45.1 |
| 29 | Walworth County | 44.9 |
| 30 | Marshall County | 44.9 |
| 31 | Beadle County | 44.9 |
| 32 | Tripp County | 44.7 |
| 33 | Sully County | 44.7 |
| 34 | Bennett County | 44.4 |
| 35 | Yankton County | 44.4 |
| 36 | Brule County | 44.4 |
| 37 | Davison County | 44.2 |
| 38 | Clark County | 44.1 |
| 39 | Minnehaha County | 44 |
| 40 | Lincoln County | 43.8 |
| 41 | Hutchinson County | 43.4 |
| 42 | Aurora County | 43.2 |
| 43 | Gregory County | 43.2 |
| 44 | Bon Homme County | 43.1 |
| 45 | Codington County | 42.8 |
| 46 | Roberts County | 42.7 |
| 47 | Haakon County | 42.5 |
| 48 | Grant County | 42.4 |
| 49 | Spink County | 42.2 |
| 50 | Fall River County | 42.1 |
| 51 | Jones County | 42 |
| 52 | Hughes County | 42 |
| 53 | Hamlin County | 41.8 |
| 54 | Brookings County | 41.5 |
| 55 | Harding County | 41.5 |
| 56 | Moody County | 41.3 |
| 57 | Potter County | 40.9 |
| 58 | Hanson County | 40.6 |
| 59 | Deuel County | 40 |
| 60 | Turner County | 40 |
| 61 | Sanborn County | 39.9 |
| 62 | Kingsbury County | 39.7 |
| 63 | Hyde County | 39.5 |
| 64 | Meade County | 39.1 |
| 65 | McCook County | 39 |
| 66 | Stanley County | 38 |