Orient, SD population, income and ZIP codes

Orient town is a very small community in South Dakota, with 54 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #366 of 485 ranked by population — larger than 24% of them. The median age here is 63.5 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 Orient town earn a median of $41,389 a year, 47.3% below the national figure of $78,538 and 37% 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 16.7% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Orient town is valued at $38,800, 87.2% below the national figure and 80% below the $192,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 0.9×, 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. 79.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

A median age of 63.5 puts Orient town 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 54 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Orient town against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Orient 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.