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Insurance agencies in Roberts County, SD
How Roberts County, SD compares with other counties and the U.S. for insurance agencies: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 17 out of 100: Low
Ranked #2,156 of 2,272 scored counties
#13 of 17 scored counties in South Dakota
- Listings
- 12
- 1 chain location (8%)
- Official establishments
- 6
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $7.1M
- On vehicle insurance · $1,947 a household
- Spending per listing
- $588K
- 53% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 33.1
- 2.1 times the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 10,255
- −0.1% since 2020
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What this means
For insurance agencies, Roberts County has a Groundwork market score of 17 (low): #2,156 of 2,272 scored counties and #13 of 17 scored counties in South Dakota. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
Household spending on vehicle insurance in Roberts County comes to about $7.1M a year: $1,947 per household, in line with the U.S. average. That is about $588K of household spending for each agency on map listings, 53% below the U.S. figure of $1.3M.
Roberts County has 12 insurance agencies on map listings as of September 2026. One of them (8%) is a chain location, against 21% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 33.1, 2.1 times the U.S. rate of 15.6.
Official counts show 6 businesses with payroll classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in Roberts County in 2023. That is one for every 604 households, against one for every 966 across the U.S. Population estimates show Roberts County declined 0.1% from 2020 to 2025, against +3.1% for the U.S.
How Roberts 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 | Roberts County | South Dakota | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 33.1 | 19.1 | 15.6 |
| Spending per listing | $588K | $957K | $1.3M |
| Households per official establishment | 604 | 491 | 966 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +3.0% | −1.0% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | −0.1% | +5.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on vehicle insurance | $1,947 | $1,827 | $1,957 |
| Median household income | $65,130 | $75,081 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 17 | 29 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 8 → 6
- Employees, 2023
- 14
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $473K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 121 chain location
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 6The 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 Roberts 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 Roberts County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 10,255−0.1% since 2020
- Households
- 3,625
- Median age
- 39.0
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 71%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.2
- Land area
- 1,101 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 9
- Median household income
- $65,130+29.4% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $83,087
- Median home value
- $154,500
- Jobs located here
- 3,221
- Daytime population
- 9,494Residents 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 |
| 13Roberts County, SD | 17 | 12 | 33.1 | $588K | −0.1% | #2,156 of 2,272 |
Other business types in Roberts County
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Questions
How many insurance agencies are in Roberts County, SD?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 12 insurance agencies in Roberts County. One of them (8%) is a chain location. The listings count insurance agencies. Official counts show 6 businesses with payroll classed as insurance agencies and brokerages in 2023.
How much do households in Roberts County, SD spend on vehicle insurance?
About $7.1M a year, or $1,947 per household. That is in line with the U.S. average (an index of 99, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 12 insurance agencies on map listings, it comes to $588K per agency. It is estimated from the incomes of the 3,625 households in Roberts County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Roberts County, SD compare with the U.S. for insurance agencies?
Roberts County has 33.1 insurance agencies per 10,000 households, 2.1 times the U.S. rate of 15.6. Spending per agency is $588K, 53% below the U.S. figure of $1.3M. At the U.S. ratio of insurance agencies to household spending, Roberts County would have about 6, against 12 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 604 households, against one for every 966 across the U.S.
How fast is Roberts County, SD growing?
Population estimates put Roberts County at 10,255 people in 2025, down 0.1% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 3,625 households. Median household income in Roberts County is $65,130, 19% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 29.4%, 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. Roberts County scores 17 for insurance agencies (low), #2,156 of 2,272 scored counties.
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