Crime in South Dakota
Major crime across South Dakota is 7% below the U.S. rate per resident: about the same for persons crimes and 8% lower for property crimes. That is the 27th highest of the 50 states and DC. Expected major crimes are down 7.4% from a year earlier. Of the 27 places below, 7 are more than 5% above the statewide rate.
Larger places in South Dakota, against the U.S. and the state
Major-crime index per resident; the U.S. rate is 100.
The 27 largest places in South Dakota, largest first.
Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 2.3 times the U.S. rate
Every block group in South Dakota, including towns and unincorporated areas: the index against the U.S. rate per resident, and expected crimes a year per 100,000 residents.
Persons crimes
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across South Dakota
Share of South Dakota residents by the major-crime index of their census block group.
- 0–5054.0%
- 50–10021.9%
- 100–20015.3%
- 200–4006.1%
- 400+2.7%
89.9% of South Dakota residents live where agencies send detailed incident reports to the FBI; for the rest, totals come from summary counts (2.6%) or from agencies' past reports or similar agencies (7.5%), and 0.0% live in areas without a reporting agency of their own (shares of 2020 residents). Data sources
694 block groups and 943,451 residents. How the estimates are made