BLS LAUS · August 2026 preliminary · not seasonally adjusted
South Dakota Unemployment Rate by County
South Dakota statewide was 2.2% in August 2026, against 2.2% in August 2025; the United States was 4.3% on the same basis. The 66 counties and equivalents below are listed alphabetically, each with its August 2026 rate and the change from August 2025. They are not ranked: county estimates carry model error BLS does not publish, so an order would compare noise.
66 areas · rate August 2026 · change from August 2025
- Aurora County1.6% · +0.1 pts
- Beadle County1.9% · −0.3 pts
- Bennett County2.8% · +0.5 pts
- Bon Homme County2.3% · 0.0 pts
- Brookings County2.0% · −0.3 pts
- Brown County2.0% · −0.1 pts
- Brule County1.6% · −0.3 pts
- Buffalo County5.7% · +2.2 pts
- Butte County1.7% · −0.2 pts
- Campbell County4.4% · −0.8 pts
- Charles Mix County1.6% · −0.5 pts
- Clark County1.9% · −0.3 pts
- Clay County2.1% · −0.4 pts
- Codington County1.8% · −0.2 pts
- Corson County7.4% · +0.6 pts
- Custer County2.2% · +0.1 pts
- Davison County1.8% · −0.1 pts
- Day County2.6% · +0.2 pts
- Deuel County1.7% · −0.5 pts
- Dewey County5.1% · −1.8 pts
- Douglas County2.5% · +0.4 pts
- Edmunds County1.8% · +0.1 pts
- Fall River County2.9% · +0.3 pts
- Faulk County2.1% · +0.6 pts
- Grant County2.1% · −0.6 pts
- Gregory County1.6% · −0.3 pts
- Haakon County1.6% · 0.0 pts
- Hamlin County1.5% · 0.0 pts
- Hand County2.6% · +0.6 pts
- Hanson County2.9% · +0.8 pts
- Harding County1.4% · −0.5 pts
- Hughes County1.7% · −0.1 pts
- Hutchinson County1.5% · 0.0 pts
- Hyde County1.3% · −0.7 pts
- Jackson County2.9% · 0.0 pts
- Jerauld County2.1% · +0.3 pts
- Jones County3.1% · +1.3 pts
- Kingsbury County2.3% · −0.1 pts
- Lake County1.8% · −0.1 pts
- Lawrence County1.9% · −0.3 pts
- Lincoln County2.0% · 0.0 pts
- Lyman County3.1% · +0.7 pts
- Marshall County1.8% · −0.3 pts
- McCook County1.8% · −0.2 pts
- McPherson County3.1% · +0.3 pts
- Meade County2.1% · 0.0 pts
- Mellette County6.2% · +1.6 pts
- Miner County2.1% · +0.3 pts
- Minnehaha County2.2% · +0.1 pts
- Moody County2.0% · −0.4 pts
- Oglala Lakota County5.3% · −1.1 pts
- Pennington County2.1% · 0.0 pts
- Perkins County2.0% · −0.1 pts
- Potter County2.8% · +0.5 pts
- Roberts County3.8% · −0.4 pts
- Sanborn County1.9% · −0.1 pts
- Spink County2.1% · 0.0 pts
- Stanley County1.9% · +0.3 pts
- Sully County1.7% · 0.0 pts
- Todd County7.4% · +0.2 pts
- Tripp County1.9% · +0.1 pts
- Turner County1.8% · 0.0 pts
- Union County2.6% · +0.4 pts
- Walworth County2.7% · +0.2 pts
- Yankton County1.9% · −0.1 pts
- Ziebach County3.4% · −0.1 pts