# Counties in South Dakota by unemployment rate, August 2026

All 66 values come from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2026-08, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `unemployment_rate`
- Unit: %
- Definition: Unemployed people as a percentage of the labour force, using the survey definition of unemployment: without work, available and looking for work. Spain: EPA, aged 16 and over. EU: Labour Force Survey, aged 15 to 74. United States: civilian labour force aged 16 and over, from the Current Population Survey for the nation and from BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics models, consistent with that survey, for states and counties. Other countries and the World: ILO modelled estimates published by the World Bank, aged 15 and over.
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Local Area Unemployment Statistics: unemployment rate by county, not seasonally adjusted (https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU25-29)
- Retrieved: 2026-10-08
- Citation: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Local Area Unemployment Statistics: unemployment rate by county, not seasonally adjusted. https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU25-29. Retrieved 2026-10-08.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/unemployment-rate/south-dakota-counties
- CSV: https://invokely.ai/download/rankings/unemployment-rate/south-dakota-counties.csv

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Corson County | 7.4 |
| 1 | Todd County | 7.4 |
| 3 | Mellette County | 6.2 |
| 4 | Buffalo County | 5.7 |
| 5 | Oglala Lakota County | 5.3 |
| 6 | Dewey County | 5.1 |
| 7 | Campbell County | 4.4 |
| 8 | Roberts County | 3.8 |
| 9 | Ziebach County | 3.4 |
| 10 | Jones County | 3.1 |
| 10 | Lyman County | 3.1 |
| 10 | McPherson County | 3.1 |
| 13 | Fall River County | 2.9 |
| 13 | Hanson County | 2.9 |
| 13 | Jackson County | 2.9 |
| 16 | Bennett County | 2.8 |
| 16 | Potter County | 2.8 |
| 18 | Walworth County | 2.7 |
| 19 | Day County | 2.6 |
| 19 | Hand County | 2.6 |
| 19 | Union County | 2.6 |
| 22 | Douglas County | 2.5 |
| 23 | Bon Homme County | 2.3 |
| 23 | Kingsbury County | 2.3 |
| 25 | Custer County | 2.2 |
| 25 | Minnehaha County | 2.2 |
| 27 | Clay County | 2.1 |
| 27 | Faulk County | 2.1 |
| 27 | Grant County | 2.1 |
| 27 | Jerauld County | 2.1 |
| 27 | Meade County | 2.1 |
| 27 | Miner County | 2.1 |
| 27 | Pennington County | 2.1 |
| 27 | Spink County | 2.1 |
| 35 | Brookings County | 2 |
| 35 | Brown County | 2 |
| 35 | Lincoln County | 2 |
| 35 | Moody County | 2 |
| 35 | Perkins County | 2 |
| 40 | Beadle County | 1.9 |
| 40 | Clark County | 1.9 |
| 40 | Lawrence County | 1.9 |
| 40 | Sanborn County | 1.9 |
| 40 | Stanley County | 1.9 |
| 40 | Tripp County | 1.9 |
| 40 | Yankton County | 1.9 |
| 47 | Codington County | 1.8 |
| 47 | Davison County | 1.8 |
| 47 | Edmunds County | 1.8 |
| 47 | Lake County | 1.8 |
| 47 | Marshall County | 1.8 |
| 47 | McCook County | 1.8 |
| 47 | Turner County | 1.8 |
| 54 | Butte County | 1.7 |
| 54 | Deuel County | 1.7 |
| 54 | Hughes County | 1.7 |
| 54 | Sully County | 1.7 |
| 58 | Aurora County | 1.6 |
| 58 | Brule County | 1.6 |
| 58 | Charles Mix County | 1.6 |
| 58 | Gregory County | 1.6 |
| 58 | Haakon County | 1.6 |
| 63 | Hamlin County | 1.5 |
| 63 | Hutchinson County | 1.5 |
| 65 | Harding County | 1.4 |
| 66 | Hyde County | 1.3 |