West Brule, SD population, income and ZIP codes

West Brule CDP is a very small community in South Dakota, with 482 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #154 of 485 ranked by population — larger than 68% of them. The median age here is 18.2 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 West Brule CDP earn a median of $34,167 a year, 56.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and 48% below the $65,500 median for the 79 South Dakota cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 51.9% 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 West Brule CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $425 a month, 69.8% below the national figure, or roughly $5,100 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 14.9% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. 37.8% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. 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 18.2 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 482 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare West Brule CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value for West Brule 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.