# Counties in South Dakota by households, 2024

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

- Indicator id: `households`
- Unit: count
- Definition: Number of households, which equals the number of occupied housing units. United States: American Community Survey five-year estimate, where the period shown is the last year of the five-year span.
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25003: occupied housing units (households) (https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2024/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/acsdt5y2024-b25003.dat)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/us-census-bureau
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Census Bureau. American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25003: occupied housing units (households). https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2024/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/acsdt5y2024-b25003.dat. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/households/south-dakota-counties

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Minnehaha County | 84,814 |
| 2 | Pennington County | 46,370 |
| 3 | Lincoln County | 27,879 |
| 4 | Brown County | 16,285 |
| 5 | Brookings County | 13,798 |
| 6 | Codington County | 12,526 |
| 7 | Lawrence County | 12,054 |
| 8 | Meade County | 11,968 |
| 9 | Yankton County | 9,695 |
| 10 | Davison County | 8,899 |
| 11 | Beadle County | 7,536 |
| 12 | Union County | 7,310 |
| 13 | Hughes County | 7,253 |
| 14 | Clay County | 5,547 |
| 15 | Lake County | 4,716 |
| 16 | Custer County | 4,451 |
| 17 | Butte County | 4,306 |
| 18 | Fall River County | 3,632 |
| 19 | Roberts County | 3,625 |
| 20 | Turner County | 3,568 |
| 21 | Charles Mix County | 3,032 |
| 22 | Grant County | 3,029 |
| 23 | Oglala Lakota County | 2,923 |
| 24 | Hutchinson County | 2,908 |
| 25 | Moody County | 2,559 |
| 26 | Todd County | 2,544 |
| 27 | Spink County | 2,486 |
| 28 | Bon Homme County | 2,418 |
| 29 | Walworth County | 2,415 |
| 30 | Day County | 2,371 |
| 31 | Tripp County | 2,258 |
| 32 | McCook County | 2,221 |
| 33 | Hamlin County | 2,194 |
| 34 | Kingsbury County | 2,112 |
| 35 | Brule County | 1,955 |
| 36 | Deuel County | 1,754 |
| 37 | Dewey County | 1,692 |
| 38 | Marshall County | 1,651 |
| 39 | Edmunds County | 1,630 |
| 40 | Gregory County | 1,609 |
| 41 | Hand County | 1,405 |
| 42 | Clark County | 1,336 |
| 43 | Perkins County | 1,309 |
| 44 | Stanley County | 1,290 |
| 45 | Lyman County | 1,188 |
| 46 | Douglas County | 1,138 |
| 47 | Hanson County | 1,132 |
| 48 | Corson County | 1,128 |
| 49 | Potter County | 1,066 |
| 50 | Aurora County | 1,064 |
| 51 | Sanborn County | 946 |
| 52 | Miner County | 932 |
| 53 | Bennett County | 920 |
| 54 | McPherson County | 915 |
| 55 | Faulk County | 862 |
| 56 | Jackson County | 830 |
| 57 | Jerauld County | 785 |
| 58 | Campbell County | 754 |
| 59 | Ziebach County | 735 |
| 60 | Haakon County | 687 |
| 61 | Mellette County | 641 |
| 62 | Sully County | 637 |
| 63 | Buffalo County | 508 |
| 64 | Hyde County | 503 |
| 65 | Harding County | 498 |
| 66 | Jones County | 342 |