# Counties in South Dakota by natural change, July to June, 2025

All 66 values come from U.S. Census Bureau for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `natural_change_july_june`
- Unit: persons
- Definition: Estimated births minus deaths of residents from July 1 of the previous year through June 30 of the reported year. A negative value means more deaths than births.
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program: natural change (births minus deaths), July 1 of the previous year to June 30 of the reported year; vintage 2020 files for 2011 to 2020 and the latest 2020s vintage from 2021 (https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/data/data-sets.html)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/us-census-bureau
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Census Bureau. Population Estimates Program: natural change (births minus deaths), July 1 of the previous year to June 30 of the reported year; vintage 2020 files for 2011 to 2020 and the latest 2020s vintage from 2021. https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/data/data-sets.html. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/natural-change-july-june/south-dakota-counties

| Rank | Place | persons |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Minnehaha County | 1,089 |
| 2 | Lincoln County | 449 |
| 3 | Pennington County | 209 |
| 4 | Brookings County | 194 |
| 5 | Mellette County | 138 |
| 6 | Union County | 104 |
| 7 | Oglala Lakota County | 92 |
| 8 | Hamlin County | 84 |
| 9 | Beadle County | 79 |
| 10 | Dewey County | 65 |
| 11 | Turner County | 47 |
| 12 | Roberts County | 45 |
| 13 | Hughes County | 41 |
| 14 | Corson County | 38 |
| 15 | McCook County | 35 |
| 16 | Moody County | 33 |
| 17 | Bennett County | 27 |
| 17 | Deuel County | 27 |
| 19 | Charles Mix County | 26 |
| 20 | Butte County | 25 |
| 21 | Lyman County | 24 |
| 22 | Brule County | 22 |
| 22 | Hanson County | 22 |
| 24 | Bon Homme County | 21 |
| 25 | Codington County | 18 |
| 26 | Douglas County | 17 |
| 27 | Brown County | 15 |
| 27 | Clark County | 15 |
| 29 | Meade County | 13 |
| 30 | Faulk County | 10 |
| 30 | Jackson County | 10 |
| 30 | Ziebach County | 10 |
| 33 | Tripp County | 9 |
| 34 | Davison County | 7 |
| 34 | Harding County | 7 |
| 36 | Buffalo County | 6 |
| 36 | Edmunds County | 6 |
| 36 | Marshall County | 6 |
| 39 | Aurora County | 5 |
| 39 | Walworth County | 5 |
| 41 | Jones County | 4 |
| 41 | Spink County | 4 |
| 43 | Hand County | -1 |
| 43 | Sully County | -1 |
| 45 | Campbell County | -2 |
| 45 | Lake County | -2 |
| 45 | Perkins County | -2 |
| 48 | Sanborn County | -3 |
| 49 | Haakon County | -5 |
| 49 | McPherson County | -5 |
| 49 | Stanley County | -5 |
| 52 | Kingsbury County | -6 |
| 53 | Hyde County | -8 |
| 54 | Miner County | -9 |
| 55 | Potter County | -12 |
| 56 | Gregory County | -15 |
| 56 | Jerauld County | -15 |
| 58 | Day County | -16 |
| 59 | Hutchinson County | -22 |
| 60 | Grant County | -34 |
| 60 | Yankton County | -34 |
| 62 | Custer County | -35 |
| 63 | Clay County | -41 |
| 64 | Todd County | -64 |
| 65 | Fall River County | -79 |
| 66 | Lawrence County | -82 |