County / FIPS 46037
Day County
South Dakota
Day County runs 7 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 1 Medicare-certified hospital reporting to CMS.
At a glance
Public schools
7
Hospitals
1
With a star rating
0
Land area
1,028
Day County in numbers
American Community Survey five-year estimates ending 2024. These are sample estimates, not a count — each carries a margin of error, and where that margin is too wide to mean anything the figure is withheld rather than printed.
Population
5,437
Median household income
$66,033
Poverty rate
14.8%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$173,600
Median gross rent
$660
Bachelor's degree or higher
22.0%
One figure is withheld above. The Census Bureau publishes them, but with a margin of error wider than 30% of the value — which for a place this size means the survey sampled too few households to say. They are left out rather than shown with a caveat nobody reads.
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Day County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$82.3M
Per resident
$15,109
Change since FY2021
+47%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $56M |
| 2022 | $54M |
| 2023 | $49M |
| 2024 | $52M |
| 2025 | $82M |
Figures are nominal — not adjusted for inflation — because USAspending publishes them that way and adjusting them here would mean this site had edited a government figure. The per-resident figure divides by the 2020 decennial count, which is the population USAspending carries; a 2020 denominator against 2025 spending overstates per-head figures wherever a place has grown since. Day County ranks 2520th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Day County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Sanford Hospital Webster - Cah | Webster | Not rated |
Public schools in Day County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enemy Swim Day School | Enemy Swim Day School | Waubay | 132 |
| Waubay Elementary - 02 | Waubay School District 18-3 | Waubay | 87 |
| Waubay High School - 01 | Waubay School District 18-3 | Waubay | 64 |
| Webster Area Elementary - 03 | Webster Area 18-5 | Webster | 265 |
| Webster Area High School - 01 | Webster Area 18-5 | Webster | 161 |
| Webster Area Middle School - 02 | Webster Area 18-5 | Webster | 125 |
| Waubay Middle School - 03 | Waubay School District 18-3 | Waubay | 32 |