What is the population of Aberdeen city?

Aberdeen city has 28,297 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #3 of 485 in South Dakota.

What is the median household income in Aberdeen city?

Median household income in Aberdeen city is $63,715 a year, 18.9% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Aberdeen city?

Median gross rent is $783 a month and the median home value is $205,500, so rent absorbs about 14.7% of median household income.

Is Aberdeen city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 3.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Aberdeen city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 14.7% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Aberdeen, SD population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Aberdeen, South Dakota (Aberdeen, SD — Census place “Aberdeen city”) is 28,297 residents, ranking #3 of 485 places in South Dakota. Median household income is $63,715, the median home is worth $205,500 and median gross rent runs $783 a month. Looking for the Aberdeen South Dakota ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Aberdeen, SD: 57401.

Population: 28,297Aberdeen city residents
Median household income: $63,715Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $205,500Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $783Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 35.8 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 58.4%Owner-occupied households

Aberdeen ZIP codes (South Dakota)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Aberdeen.

The Aberdeen SD ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

57401

What the numbers mean in Aberdeen city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Aberdeen city median would spend about 14.7% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 3.2× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 12.9% of residents and 58.4% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Aberdeen city, SD in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Aberdeen city is a small city in South Dakota, with 28,297 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #3 of 485 ranked by population — larger than 99% of them. The median age here is 35.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Aberdeen city earn a median of $63,715 a year, 18.9% below the national figure of $78,538 and 3% below the $65,500 median for the 79 South Dakota cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 12.9% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Aberdeen city is valued at $205,500, 32.3% below the national figure and 7% above the $192,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs $783 a month, 44.3% below the national figure, or roughly $9,396 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 14.7% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 58.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Aberdeen city?: Aberdeen city has 28,297 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #3 of 485 in South Dakota.
What is the median household income in Aberdeen city?: Median household income in Aberdeen city is $63,715 a year, 18.9% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Aberdeen city?: Median gross rent is $783 a month and the median home value is $205,500, so rent absorbs about 14.7% of median household income.
Is Aberdeen city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 3.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Aberdeen city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 14.7% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Aberdeen city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.