Best placesSouth DakotaChildcare Cost

Counties With the Cheapest Childcare in South Dakota (2026)

Stanley has the lowest childcare of any county in South Dakota, at $6,136, followed by Walworth and Kingsbury (data vintage 2022). The full ranking of the top 25 counties is below.

Data updated 2022 - Source: DOL Women's Bureau National Database of Childcare Prices

Explore childcare on the map

Cheapest counties for childcare in South Dakota

Top 25 of 66 counties with data.

Ranked by childcare cost (DOL Women's Bureau National Database of Childcare Prices, 2022), lowest first.

Cheapest counties for childcare in South Dakota
RankCountyValue
1Stanley$6,136
2Walworth$6,136
3Kingsbury$6,136
4Jackson$6,136
5Grant$6,136
6Hand$6,136
7Harding$6,136
8Hamlin$6,136
9Turner$6,136
10McCook$6,136
11Aurora$6,136
12Beadle$6,136
13Haakon$6,136
14Dewey$6,136
15Butte$6,136
16Douglas$6,136
17Deuel$6,136
18Miner$6,136
19Sanborn$6,136
20Todd$6,136
21Faulk$6,136
22Oglala Lakota$6,136
23Perkins$6,136
24Jerauld$6,136
25Hanson$6,136

How this ranking works

This page ranks South Dakota counties by childcare cost, sorted so the cheapest places appear first. Click any county to see its housing, schools, crime, and demographics in detail.

For childcare, a lower value is generally more favorable, so the top of the list is the lowest. Want to weigh childcare against schools, taxes, commute, and more at once? Use the live map to build a custom match.

Data comes from public sources. Source attribution and the exact data vintage are shown above and on the full map of childcare cost.

Related

Compare childcare with everything else that matters on the live map.

Open the Map