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County · South Dakota
Hand County
3,097Population
-1.6 %Change since 2020
9Net migration
1.7 %Unemployment rate
Facts
- Population
- 3,097 (2024)
- Change since 2020
- -1.6 %
- Net migration
- 9 (2023)
- Unemployment rate
- 1.7 % (2025)
- State
- South Dakota
- Population base, April 2020
- 3,148 (2020)
- Births
- 32 (2023)
- Births per 1,000 residents, 2023
- 10.3
- Deaths
- 50 (2023)
- Deaths per 1,000 residents, 2023
- 16.1
- Natural change, 2023
- -18
- International migration
- 2 (2023)
- Domestic migration
- 7 (2023)
- Net migration per 1,000, 2023
- 2.9
- Postal code
- SD
- FIPS code
- 46059
Sources: US Census Bureau — Population Estimates, Bureau of Labor Statistics — LAUS
Unemployment rate, annual average
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.7 % |
| 2024 | 1.4 % |
| 2023 | 1.4 % |
| 2022 | 1.7 % |
| 2021 | 2.0 % |
| 2020 | 2.4 % |
| 2019 | 2.3 % |
| 2018 | 2.1 % |
| 2017 | 2.2 % |
| 2016 | 2.1 % |
| 2015 | 2.2 % |
| 2014 | 2.5 % |
Population estimates, 2020–2024
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3,097 |
| 2023 | 3,114 |
| 2022 | 3,123 |
| 2021 | 3,087 |
| 2020 | 3,147 |