Compare South Dakota sheriff department costs
Sheriff department cost and staffing across all 66 counties. Click a column header to sort. Hover a column header to see what it measures. Data as of 2026-08-12.
| County | Population | Budget | $/resident | Sworn / 100k res | Custody / 100k res | Beds / 100k res |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aurora County | 2,590 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Beadle County | 19,089 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Bennett County | 3,391 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Bon Homme County | 7,018 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Brookings County | 34,631 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Brown County | 38,278 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Brule County | 5,247 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Buffalo County | 1,859 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Butte County | 10,369 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Campbell County | 1,534 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Charles Mix County | 9,302 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Clark County | 3,837 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Clay County | 14,953 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Codington County | 28,402 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Corson County | 3,906 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Custer County | 8,515 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Davison County | 19,966 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Day County | 5,485 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Deuel County | 4,298 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Dewey County | 5,275 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Douglas County | 2,823 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Edmunds County | 4,014 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Fall River County | 7,079 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Faulk County | 2,140 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Grant County | 7,533 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Gregory County | 3,983 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Haakon County | 1,755 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hamlin County | 6,196 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hand County | 3,075 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hanson County | 3,443 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Harding County | 1,176 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hughes County | 17,812 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hutchinson County | 7,401 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hyde County | 1,319 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jackson County | 2,838 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jerauld County | 1,836 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Jones County | 1,006 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Kingsbury County | 5,172 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lake County | 11,207 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lawrence County | 26,047 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lincoln County | 65,801 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lyman County | 3,719 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Marshall County | 4,363 | — | — | — | — | — |
| McCook County | 5,714 | — | — | — | — | — |
| McPherson County | 2,251 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Meade County | 29,970 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Mellette County | 1,989 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Miner County | 2,312 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Minnehaha County | 197,742 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Moody County | 6,346 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Oglala Lakota County | 13,695 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Pennington County | 110,386 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Perkins County | 2,970 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Potter County | 2,587 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Roberts County | 10,242 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sanborn County | 2,373 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Spink County | 6,355 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Stanley County | 2,979 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sully County | 1,318 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Todd County | 9,353 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tripp County | 5,607 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Turner County | 8,687 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Union County | 16,700 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Walworth County | 5,317 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Yankton County | 23,311 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ziebach County | 2,455 | — | — | — | — | — |
A note on data vintages and definitions. Population is the US Census Bureau's 2018-2022 American Community Survey 5-year estimate. Sheriff staffing is not currently loaded for South Dakota, so the staffing columns show a dash throughout this table. They previously carried the US Census Bureau's Census of Governments Employment 2022 figure, which counts a county government's police protection and corrections employment by function code rather than by agency. That total includes the county probation department, the coroner and the crime lab, and it excludes the sheriff's own court services staff, so it does not describe a sheriff's office. Staffing will return here when a county-published figure is loaded. County jail data has not yet been loaded for South Dakota; no South Dakota state agency was confirmed to inspect or set standards for county jails, so the only broader dataset covering South Dakota's county jails is the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics' Annual Survey of Jails. Sheriff department budget data has not yet been loaded for South Dakota. Sheriff names were collected from the South Dakota Sheriffs' Association and machine-verified against county sources in July 2026; all 66 counties are named. Oglala Lakota County's Sheriff's Office is administered from Hot Springs, in neighboring Fall River County; Todd County's Sheriff's Office is based in Mission, within the county.