South Dakota County Statistics

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AGRICULTURE: [back to top] look also in POPULATION & CENSUS under "A Graphic Summary of South Dakota"

CRIME: [back to top]
  • Crime in SD annual statistics on murder, rape, robbery/burglary/larceny, motor vehicle thefts, assaults, arson--statewide (with detail) and by reporting agency (each county sheriff & city police report is found under "Offenses by Contributor") in PDF (using Adobe Acrobat)
  • Crimes reported (MS Excel): in 2001, including murder, rape, robbery, assault, theft, for counties of less than 25,000 population, including these SD counties: Charles Mix, Clay, Douglas, Harding, Hughes, Hyde, Lawrence, McCook, Meade, Sanborn, Stanley, Walworth, & Yanton


ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES: [back to top]
  • Surf Your Watershed EPA environmental profile, emphasizing water (including drinking water & non-point source projects) by watershed, county, tribe, & water system


HEALTH & DISABILITIES: [back to top]
  • Births, Deaths, Infant Mortality, Marriages, Divorces & Abortions State level & County level (A-Hu) & (Hyde-Z)
  • Cancer in South Dakota: South Dakota Cancer Registry Report Cancer incidence & mortality at the statewide and county levels for the most recently available year; includes data for selected types of cancer.
  • Kids' Count statewide & county reports including
    • SD Kids' Count (annual demographic, health, education, economics, safety, tobacco, & youth risk behavior
    • Kids' Count Census data (interactive database of US Census2000 indicators of child well-being including age, sex, race, living conditions, etc.)
look also under POPULATION & CENSUS under "Census 2000 SF3 & SF4 files"

LABOR EMPLOYMENT & WAGES: [back to top] look also in POPULATION & CENSUS under "Census 2000 SF3 and SF4 files"

POVERTY: [back to top] look also in INCOME

PROFILES: [back to top]
  • Census QuickFacts for SD and counties provides current population estimates (by sex, age, race); and 1990 census data on education & housing; 1997 income/poverty data; 1998 # farms;1997 manufacturing shipments, retail sales; land area, etc.
  • MapStats federal statistics for SD counties, including population estimates & actual (2000 & 1990 Census) and immigration; crops; income/poverty; employment; economic census & county business patterns; crimes reported; EPA, superfund, watershed, & storm events.
  • Census Map Stats provides detailed, selectable data from 1990 census; 1999 population estimates; 1995 income/poverty estimates; 1997 Economic Census; County Business Patterns profiles (1993-1998); USA Counties Profiles (1994, 1996, 1998); & Tiger Maps
  • Indiana State Data Center uses U.S. Census data to generate economic and demographic profiles for each of 3,141 counties in the USA, with dynamic ranking within a state or the entire U.S. Added features, such as the Linked Ranks , allow users to easily locate counties that are similar or dissimilar.


SOCIAL PROGRAMS: [back to top]

TRAFFIC SAFETY: [back to top]

TRANSPORTATION: [back to top]
  • Census Transportation Planning Package 2000 (Adobe PDF) provides 2000 & 1990 Census data at the state & county level regarding transportation & work: means of transportation, travel time, & vehicles available per household. Also includes 2000 data on population by age (mean & in age brackets) and mean/median household income (as well as income backets).
look also in POPULATION & CENSUS under "Census 2000 SF3 and SF4 files"
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: [back to top] look also under AGRICULTURE

CONSTRUCTION & HOUSING: [back to top]
  • Building Permits for new privately-owned residential housing units by place (usually a city) & county updated monthly 1996+
look also in POPULATION & CENSUS under "Census 2000 SF3 and SF4 files"

EDUCATION, K-12: [back to top]

look also in POPULATION & CENSUS under "A Graphic Summary of South Dakota" and "Census 2000 SF3 and SF4 files"

ELECTIONS: [back to top]

GOVERNMENT FINANCE: [back to top]

INCOME: [back to top]
  • Median family income created by HUD as "income limits", provides 30% of median, low, and very low income estimates for various sized families by county & MSA (click on map)
  • Personal Income & per capita personal income for all counties, 1996-98, with 1998 per capita income rankings within the State
  • Bureau of Economic Analysis gross state product for 1977-1999; state personal income from 1929+; county personal income 1969-1999; & state projections of gross state product, personal income, earnings & employment
look also under POVERTY and in POPULATION & CENSUS under "Census 2000 SF3 and SF4 files"

LITERACY: [back to top] look also in POPULATION & CENSUS under "Census 2000 SF3 and SF4 files"

POPULATION & CENSUS: [back to top]

WEATHER: [back to top]
  • South Dakota Climate & Weather provides historical precipitation, heating degree days, growing degree days, temperature averages (some back to 1893) for Airport Stations and Automatic Stations, as well as frost predictions, climate maps, archived radar maps (2001+), and current weather & time-lapse radar
  • NCDC's database of storm events (hail, tornados, thunderstorms, drought, dust, lightning, hail, snow, etc.) for states & counties, 1993+ (some data 1950-1992), including indexes by injuries & damage