ZIP code 57238

ZIP 57238 is a very small community in Deuel County, South Dakota, with 317 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #259 of 375 ranked by population — larger than 31% of them. The median age here is 42.6 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 ZIP 57238 earn a median of $86,250 a year, 9.8% above the national figure of $78,538. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 7.6% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 57238 is valued at $215,200, 29.1% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $783 a month, 44.3% below the national figure, or roughly $9,396 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 10.9% 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 2.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 75% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

With 317 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare ZIP 57238 against its county rather than against national figures.

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 57238 is tabulated inside Deuel County, South Dakota, one of 7 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 375 across South Dakota. This is one of the smallest tabulated ZIP areas in the state, the kind of rural route where a single subdivision or farm cluster accounts for most addresses. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 57238 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 57238 reports a median household income of $86,250, 9% above the $79,167 county median, and 20% above the $71,607 typical SD ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $215,200, 22% above the county figure and 32% above the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $783 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

South Dakota charges 4.2% statewide, and local governments overlapping 57238 may add county, city or special-district levies on top. We publish the state floor for this ZIP rather than guessing a combined figure, because ZIP boundaries and taxing-district boundaries were drawn for different purposes and do not line up.

Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 57238 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.