What is the population of Crooks city?

Crooks city has 1,216 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #67 of 485 in South Dakota.

What is the median household income in Crooks city?

Median household income in Crooks city is $104,479 a year, 33% above the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $1,113 a month and the median home value is $270,500, so rent absorbs about 12.8% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 2.6× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Crooks city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 12.8% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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South Dakota · Census place 14740

Crooks, SD population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Crooks, South Dakota (Crooks, SD — Census place “Crooks city”) is 1,216 residents, ranking #67 of 485 places in South Dakota. Median household income is $104,479, the median home is worth $270,500 and median gross rent runs $1,113 a month. Looking for the Crooks South Dakota ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Crooks, SD: 57020.

Population: 1,216Crooks city residents
Median household income: $104,479Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $270,500Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $1,113Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 41.5 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 87.5%Owner-occupied households

Crooks ZIP codes (South Dakota)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Crooks.

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

57020

What the numbers mean in Crooks city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Crooks city median would spend about 12.8% 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 2.6× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 0.2% of residents and 87.5% of households own their home.

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

Crooks city, SD in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Crooks city is a small town in South Dakota, with 1,216 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #67 of 485 ranked by population — larger than 86% of them. The median age here is 41.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 Crooks city earn a median of $104,479 a year, 33% above the national figure of $78,538 and 60% above the $65,500 median for the 79 South Dakota cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 0.2% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Crooks city is valued at $270,500, 10.8% below the national figure and 40% above the $192,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,113 a month, 20.8% below the national figure, or roughly $13,356 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 12.8% 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 2.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 87.5% 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. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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 Crooks city?: Crooks city has 1,216 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #67 of 485 in South Dakota.
What is the median household income in Crooks city?: Median household income in Crooks city is $104,479 a year, 33% above the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Crooks city?: Median gross rent is $1,113 a month and the median home value is $270,500, so rent absorbs about 12.8% of median household income.
Is Crooks city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.6× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Crooks city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 12.8% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Crooks city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.