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Counties With the Cheapest Childcare in South Dakota (2026)

Butte has the lowest childcare of any county in South Dakota, at $6,136, followed by Campbell and Clark. Source: DOL Women's Bureau National Database of Childcare Prices, 2022. The full ranking of the top 25 counties is below.

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

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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
1Butte$6,136
2Campbell$6,136
3Clark$6,136
4Custer$6,136
5Day$6,136
6Douglas$6,136
7Grant$6,136
8Haakon$6,136
9Hamlin$6,136
10Harding$6,136
11Hutchinson$6,136
12Jackson$6,136
13Jerauld$6,136
14Jones$6,136
15McCook$6,136
16Meade$6,136
17Miner$6,136
18Oglala Lakota$6,136
19Perkins$6,136
20Roberts$6,136
21Sanborn$6,136
22Sully$6,136
23Turner$6,136
24Walworth$6,136
25Aurora$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.

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