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How South Dakota's ZIP codes measure up on health

The ZipVitals Score across South Dakota — built one ZIP code at a time, then rolled up to the state by resident population.

Data release 2026360 of 370 ZIP codes scored · 0.90M residents represented

Score snapshot

54.27Statewide ZipVitals Scorepopulation-weighted average of its ZIP codes
53.28Median scoremiddle of 360 scored ZIPs
67.16Highest score57108 · Sioux Falls
12.32Lowest score57756 · Manderson
54.83Spreadpoints between highest & lowest ZIP

People & national context

#21State rankof 51 states and equivalents with a computed score
32%Residents in below-average ZIPs0.29M of 0.90M, in ZIPs scoring under the national average (53.48)
0.29MResidents in the top 50 ZIPs32% of the state
0.06MResidents in the bottom 50 ZIPs6% of the state
0ZIPs in the national top 100

South Dakota's ZIP codes, ranked

Highest-scoring

Top 50 of 360
  1. 157108in Sioux Falls · 33,966 residents67.16
  2. 257197in Sioux Falls · 388 residents67.15
  3. 357032in Harrisburg · 10,467 residents66.02
  4. 457064in Tea · 8,032 residents64.57
  5. 557049in North Sioux City · 7,962 residents63.54
  6. 657005in Brandon · 12,290 residents63.02
  7. 757799in Spearfish · 568 residents62.40
  8. 857706in Ellsworth Afb · 2,787 residents61.87
  9. 957702in Rapid City · 35,595 residents61.77
  10. 1057020in Crooks · 1,622 residents61.04
  11. 1157016in Chester · 676 residents60.97
  12. 1257033in Hartford · 5,576 residents60.95
  13. 1357061in Sinai · 215 residents60.93
  14. 1457220in Bruce · 665 residents60.88
  15. 1557075in Wentworth · 1,296 residents60.86
  16. 1657745in Hill City · 1,894 residents60.47
  17. 1757071in Volga · 3,149 residents60.31
  18. 1857751in Keystone · 893 residents60.21
  19. 1957017in Colman · 1,628 residents60.20
  20. 2057022in Dell Rapids · 5,339 residents60.18
  21. 2157105in Sioux Falls · 23,287 residents59.85
  22. 2257068in Valley Springs · 1,603 residents59.81
  23. 2357041in Lyons · 133 residents59.75
  24. 2457035in Humboldt · 1,591 residents59.71
  25. 2557445in Groton · 2,072 residents59.64
  26. 2657479in Warner · 625 residents59.57
  27. 2757110in Sioux Falls · 23,313 residents59.55
  28. 2857427in Bath · 384 residents59.38
  29. 2957474in Stratford · 237 residents59.37
  30. 3057018in Colton · 1,495 residents59.29
  31. 3157651in Reva · 191 residents59.14
  32. 3257441in Frederick · 670 residents58.94
  33. 3357501in Pierre · 17,326 residents58.85
  34. 3457449in Houghton · 357 residents58.82
  35. 3557779in Saint Onge · 347 residents58.77
  36. 3657065in Trent · 383 residents58.73
  37. 3757793in Whitewood · 2,173 residents58.67
  38. 3857433in Columbia · 318 residents58.66
  39. 3957568in Presho · 540 residents58.63
  40. 4057077in Worthing · 1,417 residents58.61
  41. 4157371in Ree Heights · 238 residents58.57
  42. 4257718in Black Hawk · 7,937 residents58.56
  43. 4357446in Hecla · 223 residents58.53
  44. 4457769in Piedmont · 4,029 residents58.37
  45. 4557039in Lennox · 3,622 residents58.35
  46. 4657730in Custer · 5,596 residents58.32
  47. 4757537in Hayes · 0 residents58.28
  48. 4857106in Sioux Falls · 51,907 residents58.10
  49. 4957522in Blunt · 521 residents58.03
  50. 5057532in Fort Pierre · 2,929 residents57.83
Open the full South Dakota ranking →One page, all 360 scored ZIPs — sortable by score, residents, or place

What the distribution shows

Across South Dakota’s 370 ZIP codes, the ZipVitals Score spans a wide range. 360 of them carry enough measured coverage across all nine health domains to enter the population-weighted composite above; the rest are held out rather than filled from a coarser geography.

Assembled from the same ZIP-level data as every per-ZIP page. Read the full method →

Where South Dakota stands, domain by domain

The ZipVitals Score above combines nine domains of health into one number. This is where South Dakota's ZIP codes sit against ZIP codes across the country on each of them, weighted by how many residents live in each one — strongest at the top.

Strongest domain

Mental Health · 69th

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 69th percentile of US ZIP codes here — its highest of the nine scoring domains.

Weakest domain

Environmental Hazard · 31st

Weighted by residents, this state’s ZIP codes sit around the 31st percentile of US ZIP codes here — its lowest of the nine scoring domains.

Mental Health69
Chronic Disease Burden65
Disability62
Social Need / SDOH61
Risk Behavior59
Climate / Disaster Risk56
Healthcare Access55
Preventive Care52
Environmental Hazard31

Read each bar as a national percentile from 0 to 100. The dark line marks the national median: a bar past it means South Dakota's ZIP codes typically place above most ZIP codes in the country on that domain. A domain South Dakota cannot place honestly is shown greyed as "Not enough data" rather than given a number.

Each figure is the population-weighted average of this state's ZIP codes' standing on that domain, compared with the ZIP codes measured across all nine scoring domains — not with all US ZIP codes. A ZIP code counts toward a domain only if it carries enough measured data on it and enough of South Dakota's residents live in the ZIP codes that do; the rest are held out rather than filled in from a coarser geography. Read the full method →

Why this matters

The ZipVitals Score combines nine domains of health — from chronic disease and preventive care to environmental hazard, social need, and healthcare access — into one 0–100 index for each ZIP code, computed the same way everywhere from public federal and academic data. The South Dakota figures on this page are population-weighted rollups of those per-ZIP scores, so they describe South Dakota's residents rather than a coarser geography relabeled as the state.

A high score describes favorable documented conditions; it is not a claim about individual residents, and it does not capture everything that shapes a community's health. Where a ZIP code scores low, that pattern reflects structural conditions — investment, environment, and access — far more than the choices of the people who live there.