# Counties in South Dakota by job destruction rate, 2023

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

- Indicator id: `job_destruction_rate`
- Unit: %
- Definition: Jobs lost at closing and shrinking establishments during the year, as a percentage of average employment in the two years. United States: Census Bureau Business Dynamics Statistics.
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics: job destruction 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: job destruction 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/job-destruction-rate/south-dakota-counties

| Rank | Place | % |
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| 1 | Clark County | 49.136 |
| 2 | McCook County | 21.504 |
| 3 | Jerauld County | 20.809 |
| 4 | Edmunds County | 20.112 |
| 5 | Harding County | 19.178 |
| 6 | Buffalo County | 18.44 |
| 7 | Custer County | 17.009 |
| 8 | Jones County | 15.457 |
| 9 | Sanborn County | 15.212 |
| 10 | Walworth County | 14.035 |
| 11 | Day County | 13.357 |
| 12 | Mellette County | 13.181 |
| 13 | Kingsbury County | 12.977 |
| 14 | Union County | 12.856 |
| 15 | Tripp County | 12.763 |
| 16 | Douglas County | 12.76 |
| 17 | Hand County | 12.574 |
| 18 | Stanley County | 12.247 |
| 19 | Jackson County | 12.183 |
| 20 | Butte County | 12.071 |
| 21 | Lawrence County | 11.872 |
| 22 | Bon Homme County | 11.73 |
| 23 | Roberts County | 11.537 |
| 24 | Codington County | 11.478 |
| 25 | Fall River County | 11.43 |
| 26 | Lake County | 11.366 |
| 27 | Pennington County | 11.308 |
| 28 | Spink County | 11.251 |
| 29 | Perkins County | 11.209 |
| 30 | Beadle County | 11.134 |
| 31 | Gregory County | 10.994 |
| 32 | Campbell County | 10.42 |
| 33 | Sully County | 10.197 |
| 34 | Meade County | 10.124 |
| 35 | Davison County | 10.109 |
| 36 | Hutchinson County | 9.943 |
| 37 | Potter County | 9.887 |
| 38 | Moody County | 9.642 |
| 39 | Miner County | 9.514 |
| 40 | Aurora County | 9.465 |
| 41 | Faulk County | 9.314 |
| 42 | Lyman County | 9.249 |
| 43 | Minnehaha County | 9.241 |
| 44 | Lincoln County | 9.168 |
| 45 | Dewey County | 9.15 |
| 46 | Hughes County | 8.906 |
| 47 | Grant County | 8.896 |
| 48 | Corson County | 8.843 |
| 49 | Charles Mix County | 8.547 |
| 50 | Brown County | 8.482 |
| 51 | Haakon County | 8.457 |
| 52 | Hamlin County | 8.409 |
| 53 | Oglala Lakota County | 8.399 |
| 54 | Hanson County | 8.28 |
| 55 | Turner County | 8.243 |
| 56 | Deuel County | 8.112 |
| 57 | Clay County | 8.065 |
| 58 | Yankton County | 8.05 |
| 59 | Todd County | 7.68 |
| 60 | Brule County | 7.568 |
| 61 | McPherson County | 7.023 |
| 62 | Bennett County | 6.43 |
| 63 | Ziebach County | 6.154 |
| 64 | Marshall County | 5.929 |
| 65 | Brookings County | 5.806 |
| 66 | Hyde County | 3.965 |