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SheetSD-HURON-SD · Huron, SD 14,347 pop · income 22nd pct · 6 tracts
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Huron
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Huron on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Bainbridge · lowest
41,531
Bainbridge · lowest
41,531 median HH income
25.3% of the leader · rank #1
Jackson · near
51,552
Jackson · near
51,552 median HH income
31.4% of the leader · rank #2
Carrollton · near
51,553
Carrollton · near
51,553 median HH income
31.4% of the leader · rank #3
Huron · this city
51,556
Huron · this city
51,556 median HH income
31.4% of the leader · rank #4
Woolrich · near
51,556
Woolrich · near
51,556 median HH income
31.4% of the leader · rank #5
Nixburg · near
51,563
Nixburg · near
51,563 median HH income
31.4% of the leader · rank #6
North New Hyd… · highest
164,340
North New Hyd… · highest
164,340 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Huron on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 14,347.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Huron - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Huron places in the 22nd percentile for household income and the 37th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
22nd
percentile, household income
32nd
percentile, home value
13th
percentile, median rent
37th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Huron, SD
South Dakota's Huron is a small town, with 14,347 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Huron brings in $51,556 a year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 9.1%. Huron's housing stock carries a median value of $164,700, and the median resident age is 34.6 years. About 27.0% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 64.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 8 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 60% from five years earlier. Huron reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1804.6 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Living costs in South Dakota run below the national norm: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts South Dakota at 88.6 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Well Below Average). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $990 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in South Dakota run around $200, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 26.8 out of 100 (Very Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Huron's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from within-city variation to schools and households to comparison shortlist to reported crime to population change to work and mobility to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Huron, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, local building permits, matched public-school count.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Within-city variation
What can 6 Census tracts reveal inside Huron?
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
The NCES join finds 9 public schools within the city match. 27.0% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
Which cities make useful reference points for Huron?
Within South Dakota, the closest population matches are Pierre (14,008 residents, $74,053 income); Yankton (15,501 residents, $69,071 income); Mitchell (15,637 residents, $56,374 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Ozark, AL (14,348 residents); Jacksonville, AL (14,345 residents); Shepherdsville, KY (14,351 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Huron?
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1804.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 21% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Population change
Is Huron growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +344 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +2.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 8 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+2.4%
2025 estimate
14,607
2020 estimate
14,263
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 78.3%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.2%
Work from home
4.3%
Drive alone
78.3%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 6,692 workers age 16+.
How far does income reach against housing in Huron?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 9.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
Household income
$51,556
Home value
$164,700
Value / income
3.2×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Very affordable · BEA RPP 2024, South Dakota average
D
City profile score · Huron, SD
47/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Cost of living A+
88.6 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Bachelor's+ share C-
27.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate D
9.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
292 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income F
$51,556
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Huron profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 91/100 (A+) · 88.6 index
Bachelor's+ share: 53/100 (C-) · 27.0%
Poverty rate: 43/100 (D) · 9.1%
Violent crime: 34/100 (F) · 292 /100k
Household income: 22/100 (F) · $51,556
Where Huron sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Huron's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Huron highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Huron, SD (this city): home $164,700, crime 1,805/100k
Ozark, AL : home $138,600, crime 3,450/100k
Jacksonville, AL : home $179,600, crime 2,268/100k
Shepherdsville, KY : home $202,300, crime 1,927/100k
Bainbridge, GA : home $150,600, crime 3,631/100k
Covington, GA : home $242,700, crime 4,465/100k
Pierre, SD : home $219,500, crime 2,496/100k
Yankton, SD : home $202,300, crime 2,242/100k
Mitchell, SD : home $182,000, crime 2,230/100k
Spearfish, SD : home $309,200, crime 2,087/100k
Box Elder, SD : home $271,800, crime 1,542/100k
Vermillion, SD : home $210,200, crime 1,346/100k
How does Huron compare to other US cities?
Here's how Huron stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income22% higher than other cities
Home value32% pricier than other cities
Median rent13% pricier than other cities
Safety37% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just South Dakota and the picture shifts: Huron ranks #23 of 34 South Dakota cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Huron against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to South Dakota only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
South Dakota-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Huron near the bottom of South Dakota's cities
Among the 303 South Dakota cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Huron ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Huron only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#216 of 285
24th percentile in South Dakota
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 303
0th percentile in South Dakota
Median Home Value
#93 of 263
65th percentile in South Dakota
Poverty Rate
#107 of 302
64th percentile in South Dakota
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#77 of 303
74th percentile in South Dakota
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within South Dakota only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
22nd percentile nationally for median household income · 37th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Huron's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Huron's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Huron's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$164,700Among the most affordablemore affordable than 68% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Huron's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,664 of 15,516
More affordable than 51% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,160 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.2×, Huron sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,664 of 15,516 and #1,160 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$51,556Huron, SD median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Huron, SD median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Huron, SD.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)27.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)9.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)64.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
14,347
Median Income
$51,556
Median Home Value
$164,700
Median Age
34.6
Poverty Rate
9.1%
Labor force participation
64.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
27.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1804.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
291.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1512.9
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Schools
Total Schools
9
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Huron's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
14,263 residents
2021
14,276 residents
2022
14,389 residents
2023
14,402 residents
2024
14,562 residents
2025
14,607 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
8
housing units authorized
Single-Family
8
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
5
3
2
$0.8M
2020
11
7
4
$2.1M
2021
115
46
69
$17.4M
2022
21
17
4
$3.8M
2023
13
6
7
$2.3M
2024
8
8
0
$2.1M
Permit volume increased 60% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
78.3%
Carpool
9.9%
Public Transit
0.2%
Walk
3.4%
Work from Home
4.3%
Other
3.9%
Based on 6,692 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
South Dakota statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $200
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across South Dakota at $200 (electricity about $95 , water and sewer about $40 ).
These are South Dakota statewide averages, not a meter reading for Huron. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
South Dakota's BEA cost-of-living index is 88.6 (Well Below Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Huron is $990/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to South Dakota statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 26.8 / 100 (Very Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a South Dakota statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Huron sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Huron compares to similar-size South Dakota cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.