Groceries and convenience · County · South Dakota
Grocery and convenience stores in Mellette County, SD
How Mellette County, SD compares with other counties and the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
- Listings
- 2
- 1 chain location (50%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $3.5M
- On groceries · $5,509 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.8M
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 31.2
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 2,137
- +11.5% since 2020
See the grocery and convenience stores around any address in Mellette County
The site report maps the grocery and convenience stores on map listings near the address, by name and distance, and sizes the households and spending around it. Or open the report at the center of Mellette County. Signed out, you see a blurred preview; on an account, each report is one action.
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What this means
As of September 2026, map listings count 2 grocery and convenience stores in Mellette County. That is 31.2 per 10,000 households.
Household spending on groceries in Mellette County comes to about $3.5M a year: $5,509 per household, 13% below the U.S. average. That works out to $1.8M per store.
There is no official count of businesses with payroll classed as grocery and convenience stores in Mellette County: counts under 3 aren’t published.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Mellette County grew 11.5%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). Counties under 10,000 people aren’t given a market score, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
How Mellette County compares
The same measures for South Dakota and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all groceries by the grocery and convenience stores counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Mellette County | South Dakota | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 31.2 | 24.7 | 18.7 |
| Spending per listing | $1.8M | $2.4M | $3.4M |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 1,576 | 1,293 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +9.4% | +7.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +11.5% | +5.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on groceries | $5,509 | $6,012 | $6,319 |
| Median household income | $54,076 | $75,081 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 40 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- n/a
- Employees, 2023
- n/a
- Annual payroll, 2023
- n/a
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 21 chain location
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 1The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as grocery and convenience stores in Mellette County, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in Mellette County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 2,137+11.5% since 2020
- Households
- 641
- Median age
- 37.1
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 60%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.1
- Land area
- 1,307 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 1
- Median household income
- $54,076
- Average household income
- $74,230
- Median home value
- $84,100
- Jobs located here
- 295
- Daytime population
- 1,769Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
Looking at a specific site in Mellette County?
These figures cover the whole county. A site report draws rings around one address and counts what’s inside them: households, spending, jobs, and the grocery and convenience stores on map listings by name and distance.
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Every South Dakota market ranked →The highest-scoring counties in South Dakota for grocery and convenience stores, numbered among those based in South Dakota, with Mellette County marked.
Top counties in South Dakota
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Lincoln County, SD | 91 | 44 | 15.8 | $4.2M | +17.5% | #45 of 2,402 |
| 2Yankton County, SD | 74 | 14 | 14.4 | $4.1M | +1.5% | #317 of 2,402 |
| 3Meade County, SD | 74 | 21 | 17.5 | $3.5M | +2.7% | #329 of 2,402 |
| 4Minnehaha County, SD | 74 | 175 | 20.6 | $3M | +7.6% | #338 of 2,402 |
| 5Lawrence County, SD | 73 | 21 | 17.4 | $3.4M | +14.0% | #369 of 2,402 |
| 6Pennington County, SD | 69 | 108 | 23.3 | $2.6M | +6.6% | #485 of 2,402 |
| 7Brookings County, SD | 66 | 29 | 21.0 | $2.8M | +9.6% | #573 of 2,402 |
| 8Davison County, SD | 62 | 15 | 16.9 | $3.4M | +0.6% | #710 of 2,402 |
| 9Hughes County, SD | 59 | 13 | 17.9 | $3.4M | −0.9% | #826 of 2,402 |
| 10Union County, SD | 59 | 21 | 28.7 | $2.2M | +3.3% | #850 of 2,402 |
| Mellette County, SD | Not scored | 2 | 31.2 | $1.8M | +11.5% |
Other business types in Mellette County
None has a Groundwork market score here. Counties under 10,000 people aren’t scored, since a few businesses can swing their figures.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
- Grocery and convenience stores
- Grocery stores
- Convenience stores
Auto
Beauty and personal care
Fitness and classes
Health care
Child care
Clothing and laundry
Home services
Real estate
Funeral services
Questions
How many grocery and convenience stores are in Mellette County, SD?
Mellette County has 2 grocery and convenience stores on map listings as of September 2026. The listings count grocery, convenience and specialty food stores. No official count is published for grocery and convenience stores in Mellette County: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in Mellette County, SD spend on groceries?
About $3.5M a year, or $5,509 per household. That is 13% below the U.S. average (an index of 87, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 2 grocery and convenience stores on map listings, it comes to $1.8M per store. It is estimated from the incomes of the 641 households in Mellette County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Mellette County, SD compare with the U.S. for grocery and convenience stores?
Mellette County has 2 grocery and convenience stores on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the national ratio of grocery and convenience stores to household spending, Mellette County would have about 1, against 2 on map listings.
How fast is Mellette County, SD growing?
Population estimates put Mellette County at 2,137 people in 2025, up 11.5% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 641 households. Median household income in Mellette County is $54,076, 33% below the U.S. median of $80,734.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. The score leaves out counties under 10,000 people, where a handful of businesses would swing it.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
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How the score works · Top markets for grocery and convenience stores · All 56 business types in Mellette County
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