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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, 13 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 83 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	83	64	78	99	82	2,776
Mellette County 46095	75	29	82	98	81	1,851
Corson County 46031	73	30	78	94	84	3,782
Bennett County 46007	73	26	77	99	75	3,305
Todd County 46121	72	28	74	95	86	9,199
Ziebach County 46137	71	26	72	99	85	2,322
Buffalo County 46017	71	36	63	100	84	1,884
Lyman County 46085	69	37	68	95	62	3,705
Dewey County 46041	69	24	66	99	80	5,208
Charles Mix County 46023	68	35	69	94	60	9,240
Fall River County 46047	67	29	75	89	60	7,393
Tripp County 46123	67	28	74	95	55	5,621
Oglala Lakota County 46102	66	15	74	83	91	13,434
Faulk County 46049	61	29	67	97	45	2,151
Jones County 46075	61	28	64	100	45	855
Roberts County 46109	61	30	75	73	51	10,206
Day County 46037	60	27	67	95	46	5,451
Custer County 46033	60	55	56	84	43	9,117
McPherson County 46089	59	30	68	97	37	2,334
Gregory County 46053	58	26	63	94	45	4,018
Douglas County 46043	58	35	59	99	39	2,838
Haakon County 46055	58	28	60	98	43	1,851
Jerauld County 46073	57	33	56	100	40	1,660
Perkins County 46105	57	31	64	99	32	2,834
Brule County 46015	56	36	54	98	38	5,311
Sanborn County 46111	56	34	45	98	47	2,399
Walworth County 46129	55	30	54	98	37	5,269
Hyde County 46069	54	31	61	97	27	1,186
Campbell County 46021	53	30	57	99	27	1,340
Miner County 46097	53	31	54	99	31	2,280
Potter County 46107	52	31	50	100	32	2,413
Codington County 46029	52	46	41	91	36	28,971
Spink County 46115	51	31	52	92	34	6,166
Beadle County 46005	51	33	43	91	42	19,591
Clark County 46025	50	27	53	87	35	3,948
Aurora County 46003	49	34	40	99	31	2,782
Davison County 46035	49	34	40	92	36	19,922
Bon Homme County 46009	49	31	44	82	41	7,065
Sully County 46119	49	32	44	98	26	1,494
Butte County 46019	48	24	48	75	47	10,863
Hand County 46059	48	30	42	100	30	3,107
Grant County 46051	48	28	48	89	33	7,553
Kingsbury County 46077	47	30	44	92	30	5,276
Edmunds County 46045	47	27	47	90	30	4,057
Hutchinson County 46067	46	31	43	89	29	7,394
Pennington County 46103	46	49	33	72	40	115,903
Stanley County 46117	46	37	32	100	27	3,043
Turner County 46125	46	30	36	86	39	9,027
Hanson County 46061	45	33	35	96	25	3,471
Meade County 46093	45	72	24	72	26	30,954
Deuel County 46039	44	28	41	89	27	4,354
Harding County 46063	43	23	31	100	33	1,324
Moody County 46101	43	30	37	81	34	6,450
McCook County 46087	43	30	29	91	34	5,809
Hughes County 46065	42	35	27	95	25	17,624
Clay County 46027	42	46	16	70	49	15,431
Marshall County 46091	41	30	43	73	23	4,390
Brown County 46013	41	37	25	87	28	37,733
Yankton County 46135	39	30	35	75	24	23,517
Lake County 46079	38	29	37	70	27	11,031
Lawrence County 46081	38	21	40	65	35	28,053
Hamlin County 46057	37	27	20	91	26	6,451
Minnehaha County 46099	33	40	16	65	28	206,930
Union County 46127	31	30	25	59	22	17,183
Brookings County 46011	31	35	11	69	27	35,980
Lincoln County 46083	29	30	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.