What is the population of Edmunds County?

Edmunds County has 4,033 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.

What is the median household income in Edmunds County?

Median household income in Edmunds County is $77,266 a year, 1.6% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Edmunds County?

Median gross rent is $881 a month and the median home value is $163,600, so rent absorbs about 13.7% of median household income.

Is Edmunds County affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 2.1× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Edmunds County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 13.7% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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South Dakota · FIPS 46045

Edmunds ZIP codes — Edmunds County, South Dakota

Quick answer

Edmunds County is home to 4,033 residents with a median household income of $77,266 and a median home value of $163,600. 80.9% of households own their home and 8.5% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a Edmunds ZIP code? 3 ZIP code areas fall inside Edmunds County, South Dakota, listed in full below.

Population: 4,033Edmunds County residents
Median household income: $77,266Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $163,600Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $881Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 43.6 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 80.9%Owner-occupied households

Edmunds County, SD in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Edmunds County is a small town in South Dakota, with 4,033 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 43.6 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 Edmunds County earn a median of $77,266 a year, 1.6% below the national figure of $78,538. 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 8.5% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Edmunds County is valued at $163,600, 46.1% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $881 a month, 37.3% below the national figure, or roughly $10,572 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 13.7% 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 2.1×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 80.9% 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. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

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 Edmunds County

ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in Edmunds County.

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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

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Edmunds County?: Edmunds County has 4,033 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
What is the median household income in Edmunds County?: Median household income in Edmunds County is $77,266 a year, 1.6% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Edmunds County?: Median gross rent is $881 a month and the median home value is $163,600, so rent absorbs about 13.7% of median household income.
Is Edmunds County affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.1× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Edmunds County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 13.7% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Edmunds County data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.