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Unemployment Statistics

Data last refreshed 03/2025.

South Dakota Counties Count Rate
Aurora County 23 1.4%
Beadle County 144 1.6%
Bennett County 29 2.2%
Bon Homme County 53 2.0%
Brookings County 307 1.5%
Brown County 378 1.8%
Brule County 23 0.7%
Buffalo County 22 3.4%
Butte County 91 1.6%
Campbell County 23 3.1%
Charles Mix County 61 1.5%
Clark County 39 2.0%
Clay County 102 1.2%
Codington County 284 1.7%
Corson County 17 1.4%
Custer County 105 2.3%
Davison County 179 1.6%
Day County 75 2.7%
Deuel County 81 3.2%
Dewey County 58 2.6%
Douglas County 22 1.5%
Edmunds County 35 1.7%
Fall River County 84 2.5%
Faulk County 14 1.2%
Grant County 167 4.0%
Gregory County 39 1.9%
Haakon County 12 1.2%
Hamlin County 61 1.6%
Hand County 22 1.1%
Hanson County 35 1.9%
Harding County 12 1.3%
Hughes County 133 1.4%
Hutchinson County 68 1.6%
Hyde County 7 0.9%
Jackson County 20 2.4%
Jerauld County 14 1.5%
Jones County 16 4.1%
Kingsbury County 59 2.2%
Lake County 98 1.4%
Lawrence County 215 1.4%
Lincoln County 625 1.5%
Lyman County 33 1.9%
Marshall County 65 2.6%
McCook County 48 1.5%
McPherson County 22 1.8%
Meade County 287 1.8%
Mellette County 19 2.4%
Miner County 32 2.6%
Minnehaha County 2,303 1.9%
Moody County 72 2.1%
Oglala Lakota County 131 3.4%
Pennington County 967 1.7%
Perkins County 19 1.1%
Potter County 20 1.6%
Roberts County 170 3.4%
Sanborn County 20 1.3%
Spink County 78 2.4%
Stanley County 25 1.4%
Sully County 13 1.5%
Todd County 79 3.4%
Tripp County 29 0.9%
Turner County 94 1.9%
Union County 160 1.7%
Walworth County 72 3.0%
Yankton County 189 1.5%
Ziebach County 14 1.3%
South Dakota 8,811 1.8%

Data provided by the United States Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration ("DOLETA") and the Minnesota Department of Employment & Economic Development ("DEED")