Wood, SD population, income and ZIP codes

Wood town is a very small community in South Dakota, with 55 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #362 of 485 ranked by population — larger than 25% of them. The median age here is 51.6 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 Wood town earn a median of $34,375 a year, 56.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and 48% 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 40% 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 Wood town is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 45.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. 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 51.6 puts Wood 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 55 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Wood town against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value, gross rent for Wood 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.