St. Francis, SD population, income and ZIP codes

St. Francis town is a very small community in South Dakota, with 631 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #133 of 485 ranked by population — larger than 72% of them. The median age here is 25.8 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 St. Francis town earn a median of $45,417 a year, 42.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and 31% 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 41.5% 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 St. Francis town is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $572 a month, 59.3% below the national figure, or roughly $6,864 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 15.1% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. 35% 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 25.8 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 631 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare St. Francis town against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value for St. Francis 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.