County / FIPS 46105
Perkins County
South Dakota
Perkins County runs 6 public schools reporting to NCES. No Medicare-certified hospital reports to CMS from here — a real finding about rural healthcare access, not a gap in this site; South Dakota has other facilities nearby.
At a glance
Public schools
6
Hospitals
0
With a star rating
0
Land area
2,870
Perkins 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
3,001
Median household income
$66,908
Poverty rate
13.7%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$114,600
Median gross rent
$738
Bachelor's degree or higher
24.9%
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 Perkins County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$27.0M
Per resident
$9,521
Change since FY2021
−55%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $60M |
| 2022 | $74M |
| 2023 | $26M |
| 2024 | $22M |
| 2025 | $27M |
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. Perkins County ranks 3100th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Public schools in Perkins County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bison Elementary - 02 | Bison School District 52-1 | Bison | 67 |
| Lemmon Elementary - 02 | Lemmon School District 52-4 | Lemmon | 141 |
| Lemmon High School - 01 | Lemmon School District 52-4 | Lemmon | 86 |
| Lemmon Jr. High - 06 | Lemmon School District 52-4 | Lemmon | 56 |
| Bison High School - 01 | Bison School District 52-1 | Bison | 43 |
| Bison Jr. High - 04 | Bison School District 52-1 | Bison | 24 |