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Highest Medicare coverage, South Dakota counties

South Dakota counties ranked by the share of people covered by Medicare, alone or in combination with other coverage (2024 ACS). A close proxy for retirement geography. This list covers the 66 counties in South Dakota that qualify, ranked against each other statewide.

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YEAR2020 2024

RANKPLACESTATEPOPMEDICAREVS 2020

01Custer County, SDSD9,43135.5%+3.8 pts

02Fall River County, SDSD7,46732.6%+2.3 pts

03McPherson County, SDSD2,34730.2%+1.2 pts

04Haakon County, SDSD1,80229.8%+8.5 pts

05Jerauld County, SDSD1,65429.7%−2.6 pts

06Potter County, SDSD2,37729.6%+2.7 pts

07Hyde County, SDSD1,19129.2%+5.9 pts

08Perkins County, SDSD2,85328.2%+3.1 pts

09Campbell County, SDSD1,37727.6%+1.5 pts

10Day County, SDSD5,48426.2%+0.3 pts

11Lawrence County, SDSD29,45926.0%+2.3 pts

12Gregory County, SDSD4,03725.4%+0.2 pts

13Tripp County, SDSD5,70825.3%+2.7 pts

14Bon Homme County, SDSD7,24424.9%+0.7 pts

15Jones County, SDSD91324.7%+4.2 pts

16Lake County, SDSD10,99324.6%+1.2 pts

17Faulk County, SDSD2,17824.5%−3.6 pts

18Spink County, SDSD6,15524.5%+2.7 pts

19Miner County, SDSD2,28124.4%+3.2 pts

20Stanley County, SDSD3,01824.2%+0.4 pts

21Hand County, SDSD3,12123.8%−1.7 pts

22Kingsbury County, SDSD5,28423.7%+0.5 pts

23Yankton County, SDSD23,63523.1%+1.8 pts

24Clark County, SDSD4,03123.0%+2.3 pts

25Walworth County, SDSD5,21722.8%−1.8 pts

26Deuel County, SDSD4,40822.5%−0.3 pts

27Grant County, SDSD7,53422.5%+0.2 pts

28Edmunds County, SDSD4,02222.4%+4.7 pts

29Marshall County, SDSD4,42622.4%+1.7 pts

30Sully County, SDSD1,47922.3%−2.8 pts

31Pennington County, SDSD116,79222.1%+1.1 pts

32Douglas County, SDSD2,88821.8%+0.2 pts

33Hutchinson County, SDSD7,41321.7%−1.0 pts

34Davison County, SDSD20,06921.6%+1.9 pts

35Brule County, SDSD5,27821.5%+2.5 pts

36Roberts County, SDSD10,25521.4%+0.9 pts

37Butte County, SDSD10,85620.5%−1.3 pts

38Harding County, SDSD1,33120.3%+0.4 pts

39Turner County, SDSD9,31420.1%−0.9 pts

40Sanborn County, SDSD2,38820.0%+0.3 pts

41Codington County, SDSD29,56219.8%+1.3 pts

42Moody County, SDSD6,63219.8%−0.1 pts

43Beadle County, SDSD19,62419.7%+1.6 pts

44Aurora County, SDSD2,80119.2%+1.1 pts

45Charles Mix County, SDSD9,30318.9%+0.2 pts

46Hughes County, SDSD17,57018.9%+1.0 pts

47Union County, SDSD17,40218.8%+0.9 pts

48Brown County, SDSD37,56118.5%+0.1 pts

49Meade County, SDSD30,71118.5%+1.5 pts

50Hanson County, SDSD3,45618.4%+0.8 pts

51Lyman County, SDSD3,69418.2%+0.8 pts

52McCook County, SDSD5,96417.5%+0.3 pts

53Mellette County, SDSD2,13716.6%−0.8 pts

54Lincoln County, SDSD77,14515.1%+1.4 pts

55Bennett County, SDSD3,30715.0%+2.2 pts

56Minnehaha County, SDSD212,69115.0%+0.4 pts

57Brookings County, SDSD37,63514.7%+1.7 pts

58Corson County, SDSD3,78114.5%+2.4 pts

59Hamlin County, SDSD6,90013.3%−1.0 pts

60Clay County, SDSD15,03113.1%+0.0 pts

61Jackson County, SDSD2,66612.6%−2.2 pts

62Buffalo County, SDSD1,80211.8%−0.8 pts

63Ziebach County, SDSD2,38911.7%+1.6 pts

64Dewey County, SDSD5,41911.2%+0.3 pts

65Todd County, SDSD8,86310.4%−0.1 pts

66Oglala Lakota County, SDSD13,3388.5%−0.8 pts

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UPDATED 2026-08-08 · DATA: US CENSUS BUREAU ACS 5-YEAR ESTIMATES