Clear Lake CDP, SD population, income and ZIP codes

Clear Lake CDP is a very small community in South Dakota, with 30 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #397 of 485 ranked by population — larger than 18% of them. The median age here is 68.1 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 Clear Lake CDP earn a median of $22,679 a year, 71.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and 65% below the $65,500 median for the 79 South Dakota cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 50% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Clear Lake CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 11.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. 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.

A median age of 68.1 puts Clear Lake CDP well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 30 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Clear Lake CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value, gross rent for Clear Lake CDP 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.