# Counties in South Dakota by unemployment rate (US five-year survey estimate), 2024

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

- Indicator id: `unemployment_rate_acs`
- Unit: %
- Definition: Unemployed civilians aged 16 and over as a percentage of the civilian labor force aged 16 and over. 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 B23025: unemployed as a percentage of the civilian labor force aged 16 and over, calculated with stored inputs (https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2024/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/acsdt5y2024-b23025.dat)
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Census Bureau. American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B23025: unemployed as a percentage of the civilian labor force aged 16 and over, calculated with stored inputs. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2024/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/acsdt5y2024-b23025.dat. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/unemployment-rate-acs/south-dakota-counties

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Corson County | 23.6 |
| 2 | Ziebach County | 23.5 |
| 3 | Todd County | 18.7 |
| 4 | Oglala Lakota County | 16.4 |
| 5 | Dewey County | 13.9 |
| 6 | Mellette County | 12.5 |
| 7 | Buffalo County | 10.8 |
| 8 | Bennett County | 10 |
| 9 | Jackson County | 7.2 |
| 10 | Clay County | 7 |
| 11 | Roberts County | 6 |
| 12 | Charles Mix County | 5.9 |
| 13 | Faulk County | 5.3 |
| 14 | Perkins County | 4.9 |
| 15 | Lyman County | 4 |
| 16 | Clark County | 4 |
| 17 | Brookings County | 3.8 |
| 18 | Hyde County | 3.7 |
| 19 | Walworth County | 3.5 |
| 20 | Brown County | 3.3 |
| 21 | Meade County | 3.2 |
| 22 | Pennington County | 3.2 |
| 23 | Campbell County | 3.1 |
| 24 | Union County | 3 |
| 25 | Lake County | 3 |
| 26 | Moody County | 2.8 |
| 27 | Grant County | 2.7 |
| 28 | Potter County | 2.6 |
| 29 | Fall River County | 2.5 |
| 30 | Minnehaha County | 2.5 |
| 31 | Gregory County | 2.3 |
| 32 | Custer County | 2.3 |
| 33 | Bon Homme County | 2.2 |
| 34 | Turner County | 2.2 |
| 35 | Deuel County | 2.1 |
| 35 | Jones County | 2.1 |
| 37 | Day County | 2.1 |
| 38 | Codington County | 1.9 |
| 39 | Beadle County | 1.9 |
| 40 | McCook County | 1.8 |
| 41 | Tripp County | 1.8 |
| 42 | Butte County | 1.8 |
| 42 | Hanson County | 1.8 |
| 44 | Lawrence County | 1.8 |
| 45 | Jerauld County | 1.7 |
| 46 | Lincoln County | 1.7 |
| 47 | Hutchinson County | 1.7 |
| 48 | Brule County | 1.5 |
| 49 | Yankton County | 1.4 |
| 50 | Spink County | 1.3 |
| 51 | Aurora County | 1.2 |
| 52 | Edmunds County | 1.1 |
| 53 | McPherson County | 1.1 |
| 54 | Kingsbury County | 1 |
| 55 | Hughes County | 1 |
| 56 | Harding County | 0.9 |
| 57 | Davison County | 0.9 |
| 58 | Hand County | 0.8 |
| 59 | Sanborn County | 0.6 |
| 60 | Hamlin County | 0.5 |
| 61 | Stanley County | 0.5 |
| 62 | Douglas County | 0.5 |
| 63 | Marshall County | 0.3 |
| 64 | Miner County | 0.3 |
| 65 | Haakon County | 0 |
| 65 | Sully County | 0 |