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South Dakota

Environmental and community health profiles for all 66 counties in South Dakota. Sorted by opportunity score (highest need first).

Counties

Avg opportunity score

Converging-risk counties

What the data shows in South Dakota

Across South Dakota's 66 counties, 12 have two or more of the four health-risk areas (environmental, disease, provider access, and social conditions) above the national threshold at the same time. These are the places where several pressures land together rather than one at a time.

Statewide, the health-risk area scoring highest on average is gaps in provider access, the leading driver of community health need in South Dakota.

The most widespread specific risk pattern is Runoff Burden, triggered in 35 counties, followed by Respiratory Burden in 12 counties.

Jackson County carries the highest overall need in the state, with an opportunity score of 81 out of 100 (high). Higher scores mean more burden relative to the rest of the country.

County	Opportunity	Env	Disease	Provider	Social	Pop
Jackson County 46071	81	59	78	99	82	2,776
Mellette County 46095	75	28	82	98	81	1,851
Corson County 46031	73	30	78	94	84	3,782
Bennett County 46007	73	27	77	99	75	3,305
Ziebach County 46137	72	29	72	99	85	2,322
Todd County 46121	71	27	74	95	86	9,199
Buffalo County 46017	70	33	63	100	84	1,884
Dewey County 46041	69	25	66	99	80	5,208
Lyman County 46085	69	36	68	95	62	3,705
Oglala Lakota County 46102	69	28	74	83	91	13,434
Charles Mix County 46023	69	37	69	94	61	9,240
Tripp County 46123	68	32	74	95	55	5,621
Fall River County 46047	66	26	75	89	60	7,393
Roberts County 46109	64	42	75	73	51	10,206
Day County 46037	63	37	67	95	46	5,451
Faulk County 46049	62	32	67	97	45	2,151
Jones County 46075	61	30	64	100	45	855
McPherson County 46089	60	32	68	97	37	2,334
Gregory County 46053	60	30	63	94	45	4,018
Haakon County 46055	59	32	60	98	43	1,851
Douglas County 46043	59	36	59	99	39	2,838
Custer County 46033	57	45	56	84	43	9,117
Jerauld County 46073	57	33	56	100	40	1,660
Perkins County 46105	56	28	64	99	32	2,834
Brule County 46015	56	35	54	98	38	5,311
Sanborn County 46111	56	36	45	98	47	2,399
Spink County 46115	55	44	52	92	34	6,166
Walworth County 46129	55	30	54	98	37	5,269
Beadle County 46005	54	45	43	91	42	19,591
Hyde County 46069	54	30	61	97	27	1,186
Miner County 46097	54	34	54	99	31	2,280
Campbell County 46021	53	31	57	99	27	1,340
Grant County 46051	52	45	48	89	33	7,553
Potter County 46107	52	32	50	100	32	2,413
Bon Homme County 46009	52	43	44	82	41	7,065
Clark County 46025	52	33	53	87	36	3,948
Davison County 46035	51	44	40	92	36	19,922
Codington County 46029	51	44	41	91	36	28,971
Turner County 46125	49	45	36	86	39	9,027
Aurora County 46003	49	35	40	99	31	2,782
Hand County 46059	49	32	42	100	30	3,107
Sully County 46119	49	33	44	98	26	1,494
Butte County 46019	48	24	48	75	47	10,863
Kingsbury County 46077	48	35	44	92	30	5,276
Edmunds County 46045	48	31	47	90	30	4,057
Hutchinson County 46067	48	38	43	89	29	7,394
Hanson County 46061	46	37	35	96	25	3,471
Pennington County 46103	46	47	33	72	40	115,903
Stanley County 46117	45	34	32	100	27	3,043
Deuel County 46039	45	31	41	89	27	4,354
McCook County 46087	44	35	29	91	34	5,809
Moody County 46101	44	32	37	81	34	6,450
Harding County 46063	43	22	31	100	33	1,324
Yankton County 46135	43	45	35	75	24	23,517
Marshall County 46091	42	35	43	73	23	4,390
Lawrence County 46081	42	34	40	65	35	28,053
Brown County 46013	42	41	25	87	28	37,733
Hughes County 46065	41	31	27	95	25	17,624
Lake County 46079	41	40	37	70	27	11,031
Clay County 46027	40	37	16	70	49	15,431
Meade County 46093	39	48	24	72	26	30,954
Hamlin County 46057	39	33	20	91	26	6,451
Union County 46127	34	42	25	59	22	17,183
Minnehaha County 46099	33	40	16	65	28	206,930
Brookings County 46011	32	39	11	69	27	35,980
Lincoln County 46083	31	39	14	66	14	73,238

Scores are national percentile ranks (0–100) from the Banana Analytics methodology (v1.2.0). Higher scores indicate more burden. Click any county for its full environmental and community health profile.