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Insurance agencies in Butte County, SD
The insurance agencies in Butte County, SD, the household spending behind them and how the market ranks against other counties.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 29 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #1,849 of 2,272 scored counties
#8 of 17 scored counties in South Dakota
- Listings
- 10
- 4 chain locations (40%)
- Official establishments
- 10
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $8.8M
- On vehicle insurance · $2,052 a household
- Spending per listing
- $883K
- 30% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 23.2
- 49% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 10,856
- +5.5% since 2020
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What this means
Butte County scores 29 (lower middle) on the Groundwork market score for insurance agencies, ranking #1,849 of 2,272 scored counties and #8 of 17 scored counties in South Dakota. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
Household spending on vehicle insurance in Butte County comes to about $8.8M a year: $2,052 per household, 5% above the U.S. average. Spread across 10 insurance agencies, that is $883K per agency, 30% below the U.S. figure of $1.3M.
There are 10 insurance agencies on map listings in Butte County as of September 2026. 4 of them (40%) are chain locations, against 21% across the U.S. That is 23.2 per 10,000 households, 49% above the U.S. rate of 15.6.
In 2023, official counts showed 10 businesses with payroll in Butte County classed as insurance agencies and brokerages. That is one for every 431 households, against one for every 966 across the U.S. Population estimates show Butte County grew 5.5% from 2020 to 2025, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How Butte County compares
The same measures for South Dakota and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all vehicle insurance by the insurance agencies 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 | Butte County | South Dakota | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 23.2 | 19.1 | 15.6 |
| Spending per listing | $883K | $957K | $1.3M |
| Households per official establishment | 431 | 491 | 966 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +3.0% | −1.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +5.5% | +5.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on vehicle insurance | $2,052 | $1,827 | $1,957 |
| Median household income | $75,652 | $75,081 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 29 | 29 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 8 → 10
- Employees, 2023
- 37
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $1.1M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 104 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 7The 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 insurance agencies and brokerages in Butte 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 Butte County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 10,856+5.5% since 2020
- Households
- 4,306
- Median age
- 40.7
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 76%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.4
- Land area
- 2,250 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 5
- Median household income
- $75,652+62.7% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $96,122
- Median home value
- $244,600
- Jobs located here
- 2,873
- Daytime population
- 8,663Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in South Dakota
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Meade County, SD | 57 | 13 | 10.9 | $1.9M | +2.7% | #869 of 2,272 |
| 2Union County, SD | 36 | 11 | 15.0 | $1.3M | +3.3% | #1,604 of 2,272 |
| 3Lawrence County, SD | 35 | 23 | 19.1 | $943K | +14.0% | #1,663 of 2,272 |
| 4Brookings County, SD | 34 | 28 | 20.3 | $898K | +9.6% | #1,696 of 2,272 |
| 5Lincoln County, SD | 32 | 54 | 19.4 | $961K | +17.5% | #1,760 of 2,272 |
| 6Minnehaha County, SD | 31 | 148 | 17.4 | $953K | +7.6% | #1,783 of 2,272 |
| 7Pennington County, SD | 29 | 85 | 18.3 | $966K | +6.6% | #1,845 of 2,272 |
| 8Butte County, SD | 29 | 10 | 23.2 | $883K | +5.5% | #1,849 of 2,272 |
| 9Beadle County, SD | 26 | 14 | 18.6 | $1M | +2.4% | #1,924 of 2,272 |
| 10Codington County, SD | 24 | 32 | 25.5 | $726K | +4.3% | #1,993 of 2,272 |
Other business types in Butte County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Questions
How many insurance agencies are in Butte County, SD?
As of September 2026, map listings count 10 insurance agencies in Butte County. 4 of them (40%) are chain locations. The listings count insurance agencies. Official counts show 10 businesses with payroll classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in 2023.
How much do households in Butte County, SD spend on vehicle insurance?
About $8.8M a year, or $2,052 per household. That is 5% above the U.S. average (an index of 105, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 10 insurance agencies on map listings, it comes to $883K per agency. It is estimated from the incomes of the 4,306 households in Butte County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Butte County, SD compare with the U.S. for insurance agencies?
Butte County has 23.2 insurance agencies per 10,000 households, 49% above the U.S. rate of 15.6. Spending per agency is $883K, 30% below the U.S. figure of $1.3M. At the U.S. ratio of insurance agencies to household spending, Butte County would have about 7, against 10 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 431 households, against one for every 966 across the U.S.
How fast is Butte County, SD growing?
Population estimates put Butte County at 10,856 people in 2025, up 5.5% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 4,306 households. Median household income in Butte County is $75,652, 6% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 62.7%, before inflation.
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. Butte County scores 29 for insurance agencies (lower middle), #1,849 of 2,272 scored counties.
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