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Labor Market Information Center
2025 Annual Report
Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages
The table below indicates 38% (25) of the counties showed worker growth from 2024 to 2025. The highest percentage gains occurred in Haakon, Meade, McCook, and Jones counties. The largest absolute gains emerged in Minnehaha, Lincoln, and Meade counties.
Decreases in the number of covered workers occurred in 58% (38) of the counties in South Dakota. The greatest percentage decreases occurred in Campbell, Dewey, and Roberts counties, and the largest absolute losses happened in Yankton, Brown, and Roberts counties. Corson, Jackson, and Stanley counties remained unchanged.
The map below provides information on the percentage change in the average number of covered workers in South Dakota's counties from 2024 to 2025.
| Number of Covered Workers by County 2024 and 2025 |
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| County | 2024 | 2025 | Percent Change |
County | 2024 | 2025 | Percent Change | |
| Aurora | 812 | 801 | -1.4% | Hyde | 533 | 546 | 2.4% | |
| Beadle | 8,574 | 8,524 | -0.6% | Jackson | 691 | 691 | 0.0% | |
| Bennett | 846 | 844 | -0.2% | Jerauld | 1,559 | 1,553 | -0.4% | |
| Bon Homme | 1,713 | 1,680 | -1.9% | Jones | 388 | 407 | 4.9% | |
| Brookings | 19,246 | 19,542 | 1.5% | Kingsbury | 1,814 | 1,767 | -2.6% | |
| Brown | 19,808 | 19,589 | -1.1% | Lake | 5,221 | 5,142 | -1.5% | |
| Brule | 2,007 | 1,947 | -3.0% | Lawrence | 13,566 | 13,694 | 0.9% | |
| Buffalo | 538 | 530 | -1.5% | Lincoln | 29,694 | 30,502 | 2.7% | |
| Butte | 2,940 | 2,921 | -0.6% | Lyman | 1,369 | 1,347 | -1.6% | |
| Campbell | 439 | 411 | -6.4% | McCook | 1,338 | 1,404 | 4.9% | |
| Charles Mix | 3,548 | 3,461 | -2.5% | McPherson | 560 | 554 | -1.1% | |
| Clark | 1,194 | 1,205 | 0.9% | Marshall | 1,681 | 1,675 | -0.4% | |
| Clay | 6,065 | 6,111 | 0.8% | Meade | 8,601 | 9,178 | 6.7% | |
| Codington | 17,261 | 17,188 | -0.4% | Mellette | 328 | 336 | 2.4% | |
| Corson | 755 | 755 | 0.0% | Miner | 805 | 777 | -3.5% | |
| Custer | 2,677 | 2,690 | 0.5% | Minnehaha | 138,555 | 139,770 | 0.9% | |
| Davison | 12,547 | 12,474 | -0.6% | Moody | 2,561 | 2,552 | -0.4% | |
| Day | 1,955 | 1,966 | 0.6% | Oglala Lakota | 3,797 | 3,808 | 0.3% | |
| Deuel | 1,536 | 1,530 | -0.4% | Pennington | 62,109 | 62,445 | 0.5% | |
| Dewey | 2,447 | 2,348 | -4.0% | Perkins | 1,119 | 1,076 | -3.8% | |
| Douglas | 1,029 | 1,050 | 2.0% | Potter | 821 | 797 | -2.9% | |
| Edmunds | 1,214 | 1,231 | 1.4% | Roberts | 3,559 | 3,420 | -3.9% | |
| Fall River | 2,516 | 2,505 | -0.4% | Sanborn | 640 | 626 | -2.2% | |
| Faulk | 688 | 668 | -2.9% | Spink | 2,310 | 2,371 | 2.6% | |
| Grant | 3,854 | 3,745 | -2.8% | Stanley | 1,327 | 1,327 | 0.0% | |
| Gregory | 1,584 | 1,573 | -0.7% | Sully | 679 | 692 | 1.9% | |
| Haakon | 780 | 834 | 6.9% | Todd | 2,946 | 2,837 | -3.7% | |
| Hamlin | 2,629 | 2,703 | 2.8% | Tripp | 2,331 | 2,329 | -0.1% | |
| Hand | 1,449 | 1,430 | -1.3% | Turner | 2,389 | 2,423 | 1.4% | |
| Hanson | 626 | 623 | -0.5% | Union | 9,633 | 9,567 | -0.7% | |
| Harding | 444 | 453 | 2.0% | Walworth | 2,033 | 2,065 | 1.6% | |
| Hughes | 10,867 | 10,731 | -1.3% | Yankton | 13,091 | 12,862 | -1.7% | |
| Hutchinson | 2,756 | 2,775 | 0.7% | Ziebach | 252 | 251 | -0.4% | |
| Totals may not add due to rounding. Data subject to revision. Produced by the Labor Market Information Center, South Dakota Department of Labor and Regulation, in cooperation with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. |
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