County Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota - Population, Income & Demographics

The median income of households in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota was $34,769. An estimated 15.6% of households had income below $10,000 a year and 1.5% had income of $200,000 or more.

An estimated 72.6% of households received earnings. An estimated 28.8% of households received Social Security and an estimated 8.4 % of households received retirement income other than Social Security. The average income from Social Security was $15,526. These income sources are not mutually exclusive; that is, some households received income from more than one source.

In 2019-2023, 52.8 % of people were in poverty. An estimated 55% of children under 18 were below the poverty level, compared with 50.1% of people 65 years old and over. An estimated 51.7% of people 18 to 64 years were below the poverty level.

In 2019-2023, 48.3 % of households received SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). An estimated 79.7% of households that received SNAP had children under 18, and 36.5% of households that received SNAP had one or more people 60 years and over. An estimated 60.6% of all households receiving SNAP were families with a female householder and no spouse present.

Among the civilian noninstitutionalized population in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota in 2019-2023, 56.5% had health insurance coverage and 43.5% did not have health insurance coverage. Private coverage was 13.5% and public coverage was 44.3%, respectively. The percentage of children under the age of 19 with no health insurance coverage was 28.8%.

In 2019-2023, Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota had a total population of 13,587 - 6,967 (51.3%) females and 6,620 (48.7%) males. The median age was 27 years. An estimated 36.1% of the population was under 18 years, 34.4% was 19 to 44 years, 19.1% was 45 to 64 years, and 7.1 % was 65 years and older.

In 2019-2023, there were 2,731 households in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota. The average household size was 4.84 people.

Married-couple households made up 21% of the households in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota while cohabiting couple households made up 12.9% of households. Female householders with no spouse or partner present were 48% of all households, while 18.1% of households had male householders with no spouse or partner present. Some households had one person, as 7.2% of households were male householders living alone, and 7.1% were female householders living alone, for a total of 14.3% of all households.

In Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, 67.4% of all households had one or more people under the age of 18; 28.3% of all households had one or more people 65 years and over.

In 2019-2023, an estimated 99.8% of the people living in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota were U.S. natives. 88.8% of the Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota population were living in the state where they were born.

Approximately 0.2% of Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota residents in 2019-2023 were foreign-born. 100% of foreign-born were naturalized U.S. citizens and an estimated 100 % entered the country before the year 2010.

Foreign-born residents of Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota come from different parts of the world. The bar graph below displays the percentage of foreign-born from each world region of birth in 2019-2023 for Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota.

Among people at least five years old living in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota in 2019-2023, 13.8 % spoke a language other than English at home. Spanish was spoken by 0.1% of people at least five years old; 0.8% reported that they did not speak English "very well."

In 2019-2023, 96.8 % of the people at least one year old living in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota were living in the same house one year earlier.

In 2019-2023, 78 % of people 25 years and over had at least graduated from high school and 9.8% had a bachelor's degree or higher. An estimated 22% did not complete high school.

The total school enrollment in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota was 4,312 in 2019-2023. Nursery school enrollment was 125 and kindergarten through 12th grade enrollment was 3,583. College or graduate school enrollment was 604.

In Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, among the civilian noninstitutionalized population in 2019-2023, 9.9 % reported a disability. The likelihood of having a disability varied by age - from 2.4% of people under 18 years old, to 10.5% of people 18 to 64 years old, and to 43.6% of those 65 and over.

In Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, 33.3 % of the population 16 and over were employed; 61.1% were not currently in the labor force.

An estimated 30.3% of the people employed were private wage and salary workers; 64.6% were federal, state, or local government workers; and 5.2 % were self-employed in their own (not incorporated) business.

In 2019-2023, the civilian employed population 16 years and older in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota worked in the following industries:

An estimated 66.6% of Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota workers drove to work alone in 2019-2023, and 13.4% carpooled. Among those who commuted to work, it took them on average 14.9 minutes to get to work.

In 2019-2023, Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota had a total of 3,461 housing units. Of these housing units, 66.9% were single-family houses either not attached to any other structure or attached to one or more structures (commonly referred to as "townhouses" or "row houses"). 2.9% of the housing units were located in multi-unit structures, or those buildings that contained two or more apartments. 30.2% were mobile homes, while any remaining housing units were classified as "other," which included boats, recreational vehicles, vans, etc.

6.5% of the housing inventory was comprised of houses built since 2010, while 4.9% of the houses were first built in 1939 or earlier. The median number of rooms in all housing units in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota was 5 rooms, and of these housing units 68.6% had three or more bedrooms.

In 2019-2023, Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota had 2,731 housing units that were occupied or had people living in them, while the remaining 730 were vacant. Of the occupied housing units, the percentage of these houses occupied by owners (also known as the homeownership rate) was 53.5% while renters occupied 46.5%. The average household size of owner-occupied houses was 4.72 and in renter-occupied houses it was 4.98.

6.1% of householders of these occupied houses had moved into their house since 2021, while 17.3% moved into their house in 1989 or earlier. Households without a vehicle available for personal use comprised 23.4% and another 11.9% had three or more vehicles available for use.

The following chart provides the primary fuel used to heat houses in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota:

In 2019-2023, the median property value for owner-occupied houses in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota was $45,600.

Of the owner-occupied households, 8.5 % had a mortgage. 91.5% owned their houses "free and clear," that is without a primary mortgage or loan on the house. The median monthly housing costs for owners with a mortgage was $788 and for owners without a mortgage it was $353.

For renter-occupied houses, the median gross rent for Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota was $563. Gross rent includes the monthly contract rent and any monthly payments made for electricity, gas, water and sewer, and any other fuels to heat the house.