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South Dakota building permits & home builders

Live single-family residential permit data and the most active licensed builders across all 63 counties in South Dakota. Updated weekly from US Census Bureau Building Permits Survey + county public records.

Permits (12mo)
2,808
Statewide single-family
Counties tracked
63
All scored 0–100
Top market
Minnehaha
815 permits
Active builders
0
Top 10 ranked below

Top counties in South Dakota by permit volume

Most-active markets in the state over the last 12 months.

  1. Minnehaha County815
  2. Pennington County407
  3. Lincoln County219
  4. Custer County214
  5. Lawrence County163
  6. Meade County106
  7. Brookings County84
  8. Codington County71
  9. Butte County65
  10. Brown County61

Top home builders in South Dakota

Most-active licensed builders across the state in the last 12 months.

Per-permit builder attribution not yet available for South Dakota. Census Bureau aggregate data is loaded.

All 63 counties in South Dakota

Aurora 1 Beadle 13 Bennett 0 Bon Homme 18 Brookings 84 Brown 61 Brule 25 Butte 65 Campbell 0 Charles Mix 20 Clark 10 Clay 10 Codington 71 Corson 0 Custer 214 Davison 36 Day 22 Deuel 13 Dewey 2 Douglas 7 Edmunds 0 Fall River 8 Faulk 5 Grant 18 Gregory 19 Haakon 0 Hamlin 47 Hand 5 Hanson 7 Harding 0 Hughes 21 Hutchinson 20 Hyde 0 Jackson 0 Jerauld 6 Jones 0 Kingsbury 14 Lake 22 Lawrence 163 Lincoln 219 Lyman 7 Marshall 10 McCook 10 McPherson 7 Meade 106 Mellette 1 Miner 5 Minnehaha 815 Moody 15 Pennington 407 Perkins 0 Potter 5 Roberts 19 Sanborn 11 Spink 13 Stanley 9 Sully 10 Todd 0 Tripp 0 Turner 27 Union 47 Walworth 2 Yankton 36

For LBM & trade operators serving South Dakota

South Dakota is a tracked market for PermitFocus. If you're an LBM (lumber and building materials) operator, roofing contractor, HVAC company, plumber, concrete supplier, doors/windows dealer, paint distributor, or flooring contractor selling into new single-family construction — South Dakota's 2,808 permits/yr represent active accounts you could be pursuing.

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