Safest counties for violent crime rate in South Dakota

Top 25 of 66 counties with data.

Ranked by violent crime rate (FBI Crime Data Explorer (per-agency, 2018-2022 average), FBI CDE 2020-2024 avg), lowest first.

Safest counties for violent crime rate in South Dakota
Rank	County	Value
1	Dewey	16.3 per 100k
2	Hanson	17.2 per 100k
3	Hand	25.8 per 100k
4	Haakon	26.4 per 100k
5	Sully	27.5 per 100k
6	Douglas	28.2 per 100k
7	McPherson	28.3 per 100k
8	Hutchinson	30.0 per 100k
9	Harding	30.2 per 100k
10	Jackson	30.6 per 100k
11	Jerauld	33.7 per 100k
12	Potter	34.6 per 100k
13	Gregory	39.4 per 100k
14	Edmunds	40.3 per 100k
15	Lyman	42.6 per 100k
16	Kingsbury	42.9 per 100k
17	Campbell	44.3 per 100k
18	Clark	46.6 per 100k
19	Sanborn	50.1 per 100k
20	Bon Homme	52.9 per 100k
21	Miner	53.2 per 100k
22	Faulk	54.6 per 100k
23	Marshall	74.0 per 100k
24	Perkins	78.1 per 100k
25	Day	81.4 per 100k

How this ranking works

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

For violent crime rate, a lower value is generally more favorable, so the top of the list is the lowest. Want to weigh violent crime rate 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 violent crime rate.

Safest Counties (Lowest Violent Crime) in South Dakota (2026)

Safest counties for violent crime rate in South Dakota

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