Oelrichs, SD population, income and ZIP codes

Oelrichs town is a very small community in South Dakota, with 187 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #242 of 485 ranked by population — larger than 50% of them. The median age here is 48.8 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 Oelrichs town earn a median of $72,212 a year, 8.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and 10% above 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 15.5% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Oelrichs town is valued at $75,000, 75.3% below the national figure and 61% below the $192,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 1×, 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. 86.4% 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. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

With 187 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Oelrichs town against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Oelrichs 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.