
South Dakota · FIPS 46005
Beadle ZIP codes — Beadle County, South Dakota
Quick answer
Beadle County is home to 19,279 residents with a median household income of $63,082 and a median home value of $178,400. 70.2% of households own their home and 13.8% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a Beadle ZIP code? 8 ZIP code areas fall inside Beadle County, South Dakota, listed in full below.
- Population
- 19,279Beadle County residents
- Median household income
- $63,082Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $178,400Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $834Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 36.9 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 70.2%Owner-occupied households
Beadle County, SD in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Beadle County is a mid-size town in South Dakota, with 19,279 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 36.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.
Households in Beadle County earn a median of $63,082 a year, 19.7% below the national figure of $78,538. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 13.8% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.
The typical owner-occupied home in Beadle County is valued at $178,400, 41.2% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $834 a month, 40.7% below the national figure, or roughly $10,008 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 15.9% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 70.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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.
All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.
ZIP codes in Beadle County
ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in Beadle County.
How to read this page
What these estimates cover.
Figures are five-year rolling averages from the American Community Survey, not single-year counts, so they describe conditions across 2019-2023 ACS 5-year rather than a single date. Median home value covers owner-occupied units as valued by their owners, and median gross rent includes utilities the renter pays. Small counties carry wide margins of error; treat single-dollar differences between neighbouring counties as noise.
Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year
Cities and towns in South Dakota
Largest Census places in South Dakota by population.
- Sioux Falls city 197,642
- Rapid City city 76,836
- Aberdeen city 28,297
- Brookings city 23,710
- Watertown city 22,859
- Mitchell city 15,637
- Yankton city 15,501
- Huron city 14,347
- Pierre city 14,008
- Spearfish city 12,551
- Box Elder city 12,457
- Vermillion city 11,800
Nearby counties
Other counties in South Dakota.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of Beadle County?
- Beadle County has 19,279 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
- What is the median household income in Beadle County?
- Median household income in Beadle County is $63,082 a year, 19.7% below the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Beadle County?
- Median gross rent is $834 a month and the median home value is $178,400, so rent absorbs about 15.9% of median household income.
- Is Beadle County affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 2.8× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Beadle County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 15.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
- How current is this Beadle County data?
- All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.