Table 2: 1997 Economic Census: Ranking by Retail Sales
South Dakota

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Retail_Trade_____ Number of establish- ments Retail sales Number of employees Payroll ($1,000) Popu- lation Retail sales per capita ($)
($1,000) rank
 
United States (preliminary) 1,120,249 2,456,574,247   14,115,559 238,792,423 267,636,061 9,179
 
South Dakota 4,311 11,707,133   45,867 689,586 737,755 15,869
 
Minnehaha County 770 1,999,398 1 12,238 191,666 142,032 14,077
Pennington County 581 1,132,043 2 6,870 112,225 87,071 13,001
Brown County 237 497,363 3 3,128 47,882 35,727 13,921
Codington County 191 347,195 4 2,382 32,799 25,452 13,641
Davison County 153 230,688 5 1,747 21,784 18,779 12,284
Yankton County 162 229,610 6 1,988 25,222 20,970 10,949
Lawrence County 147 226,061 7 1,334 18,554 22,164 10,199
Hughes County 121 194,675 8 1,221 17,417 15,365 12,670
Brookings County 139 169,232 9 1,513 17,534 26,026 6,502
Beadle County 120 152,873 10 1,082 15,493 17,943 8,520
Lincoln County 72 150,517 11 625 11,100 19,450 7,739
Meade County 81 115,897 12 630 9,761 21,958 5,278
Lake County 67 114,995 13 581 10,370 10,675 10,772
Clay County 52 75,370 14 493 6,823 15,224 4,951
Grant County 55 68,101 15 451 5,263 8,080 8,428
Butte County 59 66,689 16 402 6,540 8,931 7,467
Charles Mix County 73 63,918 17 497 5,651 9,465 6,753
Walworth County 61 54,264 18 398 4,887 5,645 9,613
Tripp County 52 52,123 19 364 4,545 6,840 7,620
Spink County 39 51,704 20 261 4,025 7,637 6,770
Perkins County 26 15,784 21 159 1,770 3,544 4,454
Mellette County 9 5,051 22 58 468 1,991 2,537
Harding County 6 4,885 23 28 530 1,484 3,292
Union County 45 D   (500-999) D 11,917 N/A
Brule County 51 D   (250-499) D 5,550 N/A
Day County 42 D   (250-499) D 6,465 N/A
Fall River County 45 D   (250-499) D 7,009 N/A
Hutchinson County 53 D   (250-499) D 8,097 N/A
Roberts County 49 D   (250-499) D 9,944 N/A
Bennett County 21 D   (100-249) D 3,312 N/A
Bon Homme County 43 D   (100-249) D 7,628 N/A
Clark County 16 D   (100-249) D 4,379 N/A
Custer County 32 D   (100-249) D 6,896 N/A
Deuel County 26 D   (100-249) D 4,520 N/A
Dewey County 27 D   (100-249) D 5,701 N/A
Douglas County 18 D   (100-249) D 3,566 N/A
Edmunds County 21 D   (100-249) D 4,238 N/A
Gregory County 44 D   (100-249) D 5,011 N/A
Haakon County 20 D   (100-249) D 2,455 N/A
Hamlin County 29 D   (100-249) D 5,361 N/A
Hand County 22 D   (100-249) D 4,175 N/A
Jackson County 17 D   (100-249) D 2,901 N/A
Jerauld County 16 D   (100-249) D 2,266 N/A
Jones County 13 D   (100-249) D 1,264 N/A
Kingsbury County 40 D   (100-249) D 5,814 N/A
Lyman County 18 D   (100-249) D 3,871 N/A
McCook County 31 D   (100-249) D 5,646 N/A
McPherson County 16 D   (100-249) D 2,798 N/A
Marshall County 23 D   (100-249) D 4,632 N/A
Moody County 23 D   (100-249) D 6,535 N/A
Potter County 28 D   (100-249) D 2,933 N/A
Shannon County 15 D   (100-249) D 12,040 N/A
Stanley County 19 D   (100-249) D 2,926 N/A
Todd County 17 D   (100-249) D 9,244 N/A
Turner County 42 D   (100-249) D 8,638 N/A
Aurora County 18 D   (20-99) D 3,006 N/A
Campbell County 10 D   (20-99) D 1,951 N/A
Corson County 14 D   (20-99) D 4,303 N/A
Faulk County 11 D   (20-99) D 2,538 N/A
Hanson County 10 D   (20-99) D 2,936 N/A
Hyde County 11 D   (20-99) D 1,629 N/A
Miner County 15 D   (20-99) D 2,903 N/A
Sanborn County 8 D   (20-99) D 2,756 N/A
Sully County 14 D   (20-99) D 1,536 N/A
Buffalo County 2 D   (1-19) D 1,752 N/A
Ziebach County 3 D   (1-19) D 2,260 N/A

D = Withheld to avoid disclosure of confidential information.
These data include establishments with paid employees, except auxiliaries.
Source: 1997 Economic Census, and 1997 population estimates, data available as of 7/30/1999 For data issued since that date, or other areas, see www.census.gov/econ97.