Running Water, SD population, income and ZIP codes

Running Water CDP is a very small community in South Dakota, with 80 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #329 of 485 ranked by population — larger than 32% of them. The median age here is 76 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 Running Water CDP earn a median of not published a year. 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 0% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Running Water CDP is valued at $9,999, 96.7% below the national figure and 95% below the $192,800 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 90.6% 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. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

A median age of 76 puts Running Water CDP 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 80 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Running Water CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income, gross rent for Running Water CDP 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.