Chelsea, SD population, income and ZIP codes

Chelsea town is a very small community in South Dakota, with 57 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #358 of 485 ranked by population — larger than 26% of them. The median age here is 49.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Chelsea town earn a median of $158,542 a year, 101.9% above the national figure of $78,538 and 142% above 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 0% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Chelsea town is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 86.7% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

With 57 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Chelsea town against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value, gross rent for Chelsea town because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.