Lower Brule, SD population, income and ZIP codes

Lower Brule CDP is a very small community in South Dakota, with 777 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #102 of 485 ranked by population — larger than 79% of them. The median age here is 22 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 Lower Brule CDP earn a median of $31,667 a year, 59.7% below the national figure of $78,538 and 52% 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 57.1% 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 Lower Brule CDP is valued at $22,500, 92.6% below the national figure and 88% below the $192,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs $415 a month, 70.5% below the national figure, or roughly $4,980 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 15.7% 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 0.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 24.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

A median age of 22 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address. With 777 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Lower Brule CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

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.