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Jones County, SD

People
Population	1,004	B01003
Population, 2020 census	917	P1
Median age	33.9	B01002
Under 18	31.8%	B01001
65 and over	24.4%	B01001
Households	342	B11001
Foreign born	4.7%	B05002

Money
Median household income	$65,119	B19013
Median family income	$89,000	B19113
Per capita income	$30,267	B19301
Poverty rate	18.3%	B17001
Unemployment rate	2.1%	B23025
Civilian labor force	470	B23025
Mean commute (minutes)	15.3	B08013

Education
Bachelor's degree or higher	27.4%	B15003

Housing
Housing units	479	B25001
Owner-occupied	76.3%	B25003
Renters	23.7%	B25003
Median home value	$139,600	B25077
Median gross rent	$543	B25064

Race and ethnicity
White, not Hispanic	80.2%	B03002
Black	0.0%	B03002
Hispanic or Latino	1.0%	B03002
Asian	0.0%	B03002
American Indian and Alaska Native	17.4%	B03002

Figures from the 2020-2024 American Community Survey five-year estimates (table codes link to the same table for this area at data.census.gov) and the 2020 census (P1), via IPUMS NHGIS. Estimates for small areas carry wide margins of error; a tract's figures describe its residents, not any one organization.

Against the state: median household income here is 87% of South Dakota's ($75,081); poverty 18.3% against 11.9%; 0.1% of the state's people live here.

Census tracts

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Places in the county

Murdo 599 · median household income $67,045
Draper 20 · median household income $66,250
Okaton 0 · median household income $-666,666,666

FURP records in Jones County, SD

Records	How many	Total	Biggest
Nonprofits	31	$26,042,067 revenue (latest return)	WEST CENTRAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INCORPORATED ($19,565,502)
Patent and trademark owners	2	4 patents and marks	Draper Holding Company, Inc. (3)
Federal award recipients	292	$34,924,593 federal awards	WEST RIVER LYMAN JONES ($5,300,000)

Cross-reference: 31 nonprofits for 1,004 residents is 308.8 per 10,000 people; their latest-year revenue of $26,042,067 is $25,938 per resident, 116.9% of all household income here (households at the median income).

Highest-paid people on nonprofit returns here

#	Name	Title	Organization	Pay	Year	Times the median household income
1	STEVEN J REED	GENERAL MANAGER/CEO UNTIL OCT 19	WEST CENTRAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INCORPORATED	$440,687	2019	6.8x
2	JEFF BIRKELAND	CEO/MANAGER	WEST CENTRAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INCORPORATED	$302,046	2025	4.6x
3	JILL RANKIN	FINANCE MANAGER	WEST CENTRAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INCORPORATED	$243,547	2025	3.7x
4	SCOTT KITTLESON	OPERATIONS MANAGER	WEST CENTRAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INCORPORATED	$224,773	2025	3.5x
5	SETH GEIGLE	LINE SUPERINTENDENT	WEST CENTRAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INCORPORATED	$201,689	2025	3.1x
6	KIT TALICH	STAFF ENGINEER	WEST CENTRAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INCORPORATED	$191,398	2025	2.9x
7	JESSIE TUCKER	MANAGER OF MEMBER SERVICES	WEST CENTRAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INCORPORATED	$188,383	2025	2.9x
8	JAKE FITZGERALD	MANAGER	WEST RIVER LYMAN-JONES RURAL WATER SYSTEMS INC	$179,680	2025	2.8x
9	ROBERT KAISER	STAFF ASSISTANT	WEST CENTRAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INCORPORATED	$178,553	2022	2.7x
10	DANA DESLAURIERS	FOREMAN	WEST CENTRAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INCORPORATED	$155,452	2024	2.4x

Each person's latest year on a 990 at a nonprofit placed here (reported pay including related organizations and other compensation); people paid under $50,000 are left out. The median household income here is $65,119.

Nonprofits: biggest by revenue (latest return)

WEST CENTRAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INCORPORATED Murdo, SD · $19,565,502
WEST RIVER LYMAN-JONES RURAL WATER SYSTEMS INC Murdo, SD · $5,892,847
JONES COUNTY EMERGENCY CARE COUNCIL INC Murdo, SD · $173,450
LINE PATROL INC Murdo, SD · $169,847
WHITE RIVER FRONTIER ARENA Murdo, SD · $120,706
MURDO GOLF CLUB Murdo, SD · $82,149
LOIS WEBER CHARITIES INC Murdo, SD · $37,566
301 BARRETT DOWLING AUXILIARY Draper, SD
4-H CLUBS & AFFILIATED 4-H ORGANIZATIONS Murdo, SD
4-H CLUBS & AFFILIATED 4-H ORGANIZATIONS Murdo, SD

Patent and trademark owners: biggest by patents and marks

Draper Holding Company, Inc. Draper, SD · 3
Prairie Pizza Murdo, SD · 1

Federal award recipients: biggest by federal awards

WEST RIVER LYMAN JONES Murdo, SD · $5,300,000
SJ DOWLING FARMS PARTNERSHIP Draper, SD · $3,582,573
CITY OF MURDO Murdo, SD · $3,188,971
WEST RIVER/LYMAN JONES Shannon County, SD · $2,932,000
MURDO HOUSING Murdo, SD · $2,690,167
E D K FARMS Murdo, SD · $1,630,544
SJ DOWLING FAMILY PARTNERSHIP Draper, SD · $1,470,093
JONES COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT Murdo, SD · $1,372,364
INDIVIDUAL RECIPIENT Murdo, SD · $1,243,507
DOWLING FARMS PARTNERSHIP Draper, SD · $1,063,314

All 1 tracts

Every tract with its figures is in the CSV and GeoJSON downloads.

Tract	Population	Median household income	Poverty rate	Median age
Census Tract 916	1,004	$65,119	18.3%	33.9

Census figures are from IPUMS NHGIS: the American Community Survey 2020-2024 five-year estimates (ACS table codes shown with each figure) and the 2020 decennial census (Demographic and Housing Characteristics), by state, county, place and census tract. FURP records are placed by ZIP code (the Census Bureau's 2020 ZCTA-to-county and ZCTA-to-tract relationship files: the county or tract holding most of the ZIP's land) and by city name (Census place names, normalized), so a record's tract is its ZIP's main tract, not its street's. Cite: Jonathan Schroeder, David Van Riper, Steven Manson, Grace Cooper, Zachary Krause, Tracy Kugler, Tsu Zhu, and Steven Ruggles. IPUMS National Historical Geographic Information System: Version 21.0 [dataset]. Minneapolis, MN: IPUMS. 2026. http://doi.org/10.18128/D050.V21.0