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Insurance agencies in Lake County, SD
The insurance agencies in Lake County, SD, the household spending behind them and how the market ranks against other counties.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 17 out of 100: Low
Ranked #2,145 of 2,272 scored counties
#11 of 17 scored counties in South Dakota
- Listings
- 13
- 1 chain location (8%)
- Official establishments
- 11
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $9.3M
- On vehicle insurance · $1,977 a household
- Spending per listing
- $717K
- 43% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 27.6
- 77% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 10,993
- −0.2% since 2020
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What this means
For insurance agencies, Lake County has a Groundwork market score of 17 (low): #2,145 of 2,272 scored counties and #11 of 17 scored counties in South Dakota. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
Households in Lake County spend about $9.3M a year on vehicle insurance, or $1,977 per household, in line with the U.S. average. Spread across 13 insurance agencies, that is $717K per agency, 43% below the U.S. figure of $1.3M.
Lake County has 13 insurance agencies on map listings as of September 2026. One of them (8%) is a chain location, against 21% across the U.S. That comes to 27.6 for every 10,000 households, 77% above the U.S. rate of 15.6.
Official counts show 11 businesses with payroll classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in Lake County in 2023. That is one for every 429 households, against one for every 966 across the U.S. Population estimates show Lake County declined 0.2% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S.
How Lake 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 | Lake County | South Dakota | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 27.6 | 19.1 | 15.6 |
| Spending per listing | $717K | $957K | $1.3M |
| Households per official establishment | 429 | 491 | 966 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +3.0% | −1.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −0.2% | +5.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on vehicle insurance | $1,977 | $1,827 | $1,957 |
| Median household income | $76,808 | $75,081 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 17 | 29 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 13 → 11
- Employees, 2023
- 29
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $1.1M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 131 chain location
- 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 Lake 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 Lake County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 10,993−0.2% since 2020
- Households
- 4,716
- Median age
- 44.3
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 74%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.3
- Land area
- 563 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 19
- Median household income
- $76,808+24.2% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $104,754
- Median home value
- $247,600
- Jobs located here
- 5,183
- Daytime population
- 10,346Residents 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 |
| 11Lake County, SD | 17 | 13 | 27.6 | $717K | −0.2% | #2,145 of 2,272 |
Other business types in Lake County
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Questions
How many insurance agencies are in Lake County, SD?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 13 insurance agencies in Lake County. One of them (8%) is a chain location. The listings count insurance agencies. Official counts show 11 businesses with payroll classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in 2023.
How much do households in Lake County, SD spend on vehicle insurance?
About $9.3M a year, or $1,977 per household. That is in line with the U.S. average (an index of 101, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 13 insurance agencies on map listings, it comes to $717K per agency. It is estimated from the incomes of the 4,716 households in Lake County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Lake County, SD compare with the U.S. for insurance agencies?
Lake County has 27.6 insurance agencies per 10,000 households, 77% above the U.S. rate of 15.6. Spending per agency is $717K, 43% below the U.S. figure of $1.3M. At the U.S. ratio of insurance agencies to household spending, Lake County would have about 7, against 13 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 429 households, against one for every 966 across the U.S.
How fast is Lake County, SD growing?
Population estimates put Lake County at 10,993 people in 2025, down 0.2% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 4,716 households. Median household income in Lake County is $76,808, 5% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 24.2%, 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. Lake County scores 17 for insurance agencies (low), #2,145 of 2,272 scored counties.
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