Counties with the highest unemployment rate in South Dakota
Unemployment rates, while significantly lower than the alarming pandemic peak of 14.7% experienced in April 2020, remain a subject of concern, notably as economic experts bandy around the idea of a potential recession by 2023. The last economic recession—the Great Recession of 2008-2010—sent rates up to 10% as of October 2009. It was not until the spring of 2019 that unemployment finally went down to the same level it sits at now.
As of October of this year, national unemployment is at 3.7%, 0.2% higher than in September. Seasonally adjusted unemployment rates by state demonstrate a rather sizable spectrum, ranging from just 2.0% in Minnesota, to 4.5% in Illinois and 4.7% in the District of Columbia. Further breakdown by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows yet another county-based spectrum within each state.
To that end, Stacker compiled a list of counties with the highest unemployment rate in South Dakota using data from the BLS. Counties are ranked by unemployment rate in September 2022.
#50. Codington County
--- 1 month change: -0.6%
--- 1 year change: -0.7%
- Total labor force: 16,045 (278 unemployed)
#49. Davison County
--- 1 month change: -0.5%
--- 1 year change: -0.6%
- Total labor force: 11,021 (185 unemployed)
#48. Edmunds County
--- 1 month change: -0.6%
--- 1 year change: -0.7%
- Total labor force: 1,946 (33 unemployed)
#47. Grant County
--- 1 month change: -0.5%
--- 1 year change: -0.6%
- Total labor force: 4,304 (72 unemployed)
#46. Gregory County
--- 1 month change: -0.4%
--- 1 year change: -0.6%
- Total labor force: 2,118 (36 unemployed)
#45. Bon Homme County
--- 1 month change: -0.3%
--- 1 year change: -0.6%
- Total labor force: 2,778 (49 unemployed)
#44. Clay County
--- 1 month change: -1.0%
--- 1 year change: -0.5%
- Total labor force: 7,524 (134 unemployed)
#43. Douglas County
--- 1 month change: -0.5%
--- 1 year change: -0.3%
- Total labor force: 1,477 (27 unemployed)
#42. Hutchinson County
--- 1 month change: -0.5%
--- 1 year change: -0.6%
- Total labor force: 3,504 (63 unemployed)
#41. Kingsbury County
--- 1 month change: -0.4%
--- 1 year change: -0.7%
- Total labor force: 2,855 (51 unemployed)
#40. Lawrence County
--- 1 month change: -0.5%
--- 1 year change: -0.7%
- Total labor force: 14,320 (257 unemployed)
#39. Turner County
--- 1 month change: -0.3%
--- 1 year change: -0.3%
- Total labor force: 4,768 (84 unemployed)
#38. Yankton County
--- 1 month change: -0.4%
--- 1 year change: -0.5%
- Total labor force: 11,616 (209 unemployed)
#37. Butte County
--- 1 month change: -0.5%
--- 1 year change: -0.9%
- Total labor force: 4,975 (97 unemployed)
#36. Haakon County
--- 1 month change: -0.1%
--- 1 year change: -0.6%
- Total labor force: 1,018 (19 unemployed)
#35. Jones County
--- 1 month change: -0.9%
--- 1 year change: -1.1%
- Total labor force: 529 (10 unemployed)
#34. Lake County
--- 1 month change: -0.9%
--- 1 year change: -0.6%
- Total labor force: 6,645 (125 unemployed)
#33. Meade County
--- 1 month change: -0.4%
--- 1 year change: -0.7%
- Total labor force: 14,649 (284 unemployed)
#32. Pennington County
--- 1 month change: -0.4%
--- 1 year change: -0.7%
- Total labor force: 60,530 (1,138 unemployed)
#31. Potter County
--- 1 month change: -0.7%
--- 1 year change: -0.7%
- Total labor force: 1,014 (19 unemployed)
#30. Sanborn County
--- 1 month change: -0.2%
--- 1 year change: -0.8%
- Total labor force: 1,166 (22 unemployed)
#29. Brown County
--- 1 month change: -0.6%
--- 1 year change: -0.6%
- Total labor force: 19,884 (391 unemployed)
#28. Faulk County
--- 1 month change: -0.6%
--- 1 year change: -0.5%
- Total labor force: 1,037 (21 unemployed)
#27. Hyde County
--- 1 month change: -0.7%
--- 1 year change: -0.5%
- Total labor force: 649 (13 unemployed)
#26. Union County
--- 1 month change: -0.7%
--- 1 year change: -0.9%
- Total labor force: 8,588 (176 unemployed)
#25. Campbell County
--- 1 month change: -0.5%
--- 1 year change: -1.2%
- Total labor force: 749 (16 unemployed)
#24. Charles Mix County
--- 1 month change: -0.7%
--- 1 year change: -0.9%
- Total labor force: 3,731 (79 unemployed)
#23. Day County
--- 1 month change: -0.8%
--- 1 year change: -1.0%
- Total labor force: 2,619 (55 unemployed)
#22. Deuel County
--- 1 month change: -0.5%
--- 1 year change: -1.0%
- Total labor force: 2,358 (49 unemployed)
#21. Fall River County
--- 1 month change: -0.7%
--- 1 year change: -1.2%
- Total labor force: 3,103 (64 unemployed)
#20. Hanson County
--- 1 month change: -0.5%
--- 1 year change: -0.7%
- Total labor force: 1,751 (36 unemployed)
#19. Harding County
--- 1 month change: -0.3%
--- 1 year change: -0.5%
- Total labor force: 705 (15 unemployed)
#18. Lyman County
--- 1 month change: -1.1%
--- 1 year change: -1.5%
- Total labor force: 1,704 (36 unemployed)
#17. Moody County
--- 1 month change: -1.0%
--- 1 year change: -0.2%
- Total labor force: 3,969 (82 unemployed)
#16. Perkins County
--- 1 month change: -0.4%
--- 1 year change: -0.5%
- Total labor force: 1,398 (30 unemployed)
#15. Spink County
--- 1 month change: -0.5%
--- 1 year change: -0.5%
- Total labor force: 2,950 (61 unemployed)
#14. Marshall County
--- 1 month change: -0.6%
--- 1 year change: -0.5%
- Total labor force: 2,401 (52 unemployed)
#13. Jackson County
--- 1 month change: -0.8%
--- 1 year change: -1.1%
- Total labor force: 1,244 (28 unemployed)
#12. Roberts County
--- 1 month change: -1.1%
--- 1 year change: -0.9%
- Total labor force: 4,718 (108 unemployed)
#11. Custer County
--- 1 month change: -0.4%
--- 1 year change: -0.9%
- Total labor force: 4,200 (102 unemployed)
#10. Corson County
--- 1 month change: -2.2%
--- 1 year change: -1.8%
- Total labor force: 1,242 (31 unemployed)
#9. Bennett County
--- 1 month change: -0.9%
--- 1 year change: -1.0%
- Total labor force: 1,048 (27 unemployed)
#8. Mellette County
--- 1 month change: -2.8%
--- 1 year change: -0.9%
- Total labor force: 713 (19 unemployed)
#7. McPherson County
--- 1 month change: -0.6%
--- 1 year change: -0.2%
- Total labor force: 966 (28 unemployed)
#6. Walworth County
--- 1 month change: -0.8%
--- 1 year change: -1.1%
- Total labor force: 2,113 (61 unemployed)
#5. Todd County
--- 1 month change: -1.6%
--- 1 year change: -0.4%
- Total labor force: 2,984 (94 unemployed)
#4. Ziebach County
--- 1 month change: -2.3%
--- 1 year change: -0.5%
- Total labor force: 933 (31 unemployed)
#3. Buffalo County
--- 1 month change: -1.2%
--- 1 year change: +0.4%
- Total labor force: 729 (37 unemployed)
#2. Dewey County
--- 1 month change: -5.2%
--- 1 year change: +0.1%
- Total labor force: 2,261 (125 unemployed)
#1. Oglala Lakota County
--- 1 month change: -2.6%
--- 1 year change: -1.7%
- Total labor force: 3,865 (215 unemployed)