The Local Area Unemployment Statistics release include monthly and annual-average estimates of civilian labor force, employed people, unemployed people, and unemployment rates for different geographies. These data are based on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the household survey that is the source of the national unemployment rate. For more details, see the frequently asked questions here: https://www.bls.gov/lau/laufaq.htm.


   

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    Jan 1976    
 
 
    Jan 2026
Persons
Name Jan 2026 Dec 2025 Jan 2025
South Dakota
11,848 11,702 10,243
Aurora County
34 31 24
Beadle County
182 203 165
Bennett County
39 44 33
Bon Homme County
56 52 53
Brookings County
441 515 369
Brown County
439 458 449
Brule County
39 52 24
Buffalo County
23 28 26
Butte County
119 119 111
Campbell County
18 20 20
Charles Mix County
103 102 62
Clark County
48 36 47
Clay County
158 219 128
Codington County
383 390 324
Corson County
35 50 26
Custer County
137 133 122
Davison County
249 241 187
Day County
88 78 77
Deuel County
95 75 88
Dewey County
80 96 74
Douglas County
27 33 26
Edmunds County
42 46 43
Fall River County
125 106 102
Faulk County
19 20 13
Grant County
180 156 187
Gregory County
42 42 41
Haakon County
18 20 13
Hamlin County
82 81 72
Hand County
37 39 26
Hanson County
64 52 51
Harding County
8 15 11
Hughes County
203 189 155
Hutchinson County
105 104 94
Hyde County
10 10 9
Jackson County
40 37 26
Jerauld County
16 15 17
Jones County
13 13 13
Kingsbury County
74 65 64
Lake County
116 132 101
Lawrence County
307 351 273
Lincoln County
920 871 719
Lyman County
45 50 40
Marshall County
79 72 68
McCook County
74 67 64
McPherson County
29 23 24
Meade County
378 340 312
Mellette County
23 23 18
Miner County
27 29 33
Minnehaha County
3,055 2,861 2,581
Moody County
106 98 75
Oglala Lakota County
201 236 172
Pennington County
1,363 1,341 1,136
Perkins County
31 31 21
Potter County
40 39 21
Roberts County
204 195 185
Sanborn County
24 24 26
Spink County
82 72 82
Stanley County
31 33 27
Sully County
11 13 13
Todd County
100 130 107
Tripp County
56 62 37
Turner County
114 120 101
Union County
217 229 192
Walworth County
80 72 81
Yankton County
243 265 213
Ziebach County
19 28 16
   

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