Lake City, SD population, income and ZIP codes

Lake City town is a very small community in South Dakota, with 56 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #360 of 485 ranked by population — larger than 25% of them. The median age here is 34.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger 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 Lake City town earn a median of $43,750 a year, 44.3% below the national figure of $78,538 and 33% below the $65,500 median for the 79 South Dakota cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 39.3% 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 Lake City town is valued at $175,000, 42.3% below the national figure and 9% below the $192,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 90% 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.

With 56 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Lake City town against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Lake City 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.