County / FIPS 46067
Hutchinson County
South Dakota
Hutchinson County runs 19 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 2 Medicare-certified hospitals reporting to CMS, of which 1 carry an overall star rating.
At a glance
Public schools
19
Hospitals
2
With a star rating
1
Land area
813
Hutchinson 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
7,404
Median household income
$73,977
Poverty rate
12.2%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$163,000
Median gross rent
$727
Bachelor's degree or higher
28.8%
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 Hutchinson County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$69.9M
Per resident
$9,418
Change since FY2021
−15%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $82M |
| 2022 | $94M |
| 2023 | $46M |
| 2024 | $55M |
| 2025 | $70M |
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. Hutchinson County ranks 2651st of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Hutchinson County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Avera St Benedict Health Center - Cah | Parkston | |
| Freeman Medical Center - Cah | Freeman | Not rated |
Public schools in Hutchinson County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freeman Elementary - 02 | Freeman School District 33-1 | Freeman | 173 |
| Freeman High School - 01 | Freeman School District 33-1 | Freeman | 92 |
| Freeman Jr High - 05 | Freeman School District 33-1 | Freeman | 60 |
| Menno Elementary - 02 | Menno School District 33-2 | Menno | 82 |
| Menno High School - 01 | Menno School District 33-2 | Menno | 74 |
| Menno Middle School - 05 | Menno School District 33-2 | Menno | 65 |
| Parkston Elementary - 02 | Parkston School District 33-3 | Parkston | 280 |
| Parkston High School - 01 | Parkston School District 33-3 | Parkston | 122 |
| Parkston Middle School - 05 | Parkston School District 33-3 | Parkston | 102 |
| Tripp Elementary - 03 | Tripp-Delmont School District 33-5 | Tripp | 101 |
| Maxwell Colony Elementary - 04 | Menno School District 33-2 | Menno | 47 |
| New Elm Spring Colony Elementary - 08 | Parkston School District 33-3 | Ethan | 22 |
| Old Elm Spring Colony Elementary - 03 | Parkston School District 33-3 | Parkston | 32 |
| Our Home | Parkston School District 33-3 | Parkston | 24 |
| Tripp-Delmont High School - 01 | Tripp-Delmont School District 33-5 | Tripp | 45 |
| Tripp-Delmont Jr. High - 02 | Tripp-Delmont School District 33-5 | Tripp | 15 |
| Tschetter Colony Elementary - 03 | Freeman School District 33-1 | Freeman | 45 |
| Wolf Creek Colony Elementary - 04 | Freeman School District 33-1 | Freeman | 34 |
| Parkston Virtual School - 92 | Parkston School District 33-3 | Parkston | — |