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Highest Medicare coverage, South Dakota counties · 2020

South Dakota counties ranked by the share of people covered by Medicare, alone or in combination with other coverage (2020 ACS). A close proxy for retirement geography. This list covers the 66 counties in South Dakota that qualify, ranked against each other statewide. The median across all 66 is 20.7%.

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01Jerauld County, SDSD1,65432.3%–

02Custer County, SDSD9,43131.7%–

03Fall River County, SDSD7,46730.3%–

04McPherson County, SDSD2,34729.0%–

05Faulk County, SDSD2,17828.1%–

06Potter County, SDSD2,37726.9%–

07Campbell County, SDSD1,37726.1%–

08Day County, SDSD5,48425.9%–

09Hand County, SDSD3,12125.5%–

10Gregory County, SDSD4,03725.2%–

11Perkins County, SDSD2,85325.1%–

12Sully County, SDSD1,47925.1%–

13Walworth County, SDSD5,21724.6%–

14Bon Homme County, SDSD7,24424.2%–

15Stanley County, SDSD3,01823.8%–

16Lawrence County, SDSD29,45923.7%–

17Lake County, SDSD10,99323.4%–

18Hyde County, SDSD1,19123.3%–

19Kingsbury County, SDSD5,28423.2%–

20Deuel County, SDSD4,40822.8%–

21Hutchinson County, SDSD7,41322.7%–

22Tripp County, SDSD5,70822.6%–

23Grant County, SDSD7,53422.3%–

24Butte County, SDSD10,85621.8%–

25Spink County, SDSD6,15521.8%–

26Douglas County, SDSD2,88821.6%–

27Haakon County, SDSD1,80221.3%–

28Yankton County, SDSD23,63521.3%–

29Miner County, SDSD2,28121.2%–

30Pennington County, SDSD116,79221.0%–

31Turner County, SDSD9,31421.0%–

32Clark County, SDSD4,03120.7%–

33Marshall County, SDSD4,42620.7%–

34Jones County, SDSD91320.5%–

35Roberts County, SDSD10,25520.5%–

36Harding County, SDSD1,33119.9%–

37Moody County, SDSD6,63219.9%–

38Davison County, SDSD20,06919.7%–

39Sanborn County, SDSD2,38819.7%–

40Brule County, SDSD5,27819.0%–

41Charles Mix County, SDSD9,30318.7%–

42Codington County, SDSD29,56218.5%–

43Brown County, SDSD37,56118.4%–

44Aurora County, SDSD2,80118.1%–

45Beadle County, SDSD19,62418.1%–

46Hughes County, SDSD17,57017.9%–

47Union County, SDSD17,40217.9%–

48Edmunds County, SDSD4,02217.7%–

49Hanson County, SDSD3,45617.6%–

50Lyman County, SDSD3,69417.4%–

51Mellette County, SDSD2,13717.4%–

52McCook County, SDSD5,96417.2%–

53Meade County, SDSD30,71117.0%–

54Jackson County, SDSD2,66614.8%–

55Minnehaha County, SDSD212,69114.6%–

56Hamlin County, SDSD6,90014.3%–

57Lincoln County, SDSD77,14513.7%–

58Clay County, SDSD15,03113.1%–

59Brookings County, SDSD37,63513.0%–

60Bennett County, SDSD3,30712.8%–

61Buffalo County, SDSD1,80212.6%–

62Corson County, SDSD3,78112.1%–

63Dewey County, SDSD5,41910.9%–

64Todd County, SDSD8,86310.5%–

65Ziebach County, SDSD2,38910.1%–

66Oglala Lakota County, SDSD13,3389.3%–

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UPDATED 2026-09-11 · DATA: US CENSUS BUREAU DECENNIAL CENSUS