7,416 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.1% since 2020)
813 square miles of land · 9 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
6 active community water systems list Hutchinson County in the area they serve, reporting 20,890 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| BY WATER DISTRICT surface water · local government · SD4600865 | 13,320 served |
| DAVISON RURAL WATER SYSTEM INC buys surface water · private · SD4601090 | 3,485 served |
| PARKSTON buys surface water · local government · SD4600236 | 1,567 served |
| FREEMAN buys surface water · local government · SD4600134 | 1,329 served |
| MENNO buys surface water · local government · SD4600205 | 614 served |
| TRIPP groundwater · local government · SD4600334 | 575 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 2 people were held in Hutchinson County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (1978), or 38 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
4 school districts have their office in Hutchinson County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $8.7 million — $6.8 million to run schools, about $12,093 per student, plus $1.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.4 million local (mostly property tax), $2.8 million state, $1.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $924,000.
Spent $7 million — $5.4 million to run schools, about $13,379 per student, plus $1.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.3 million local (mostly property tax), $1.9 million state, $849,000 federal. Long-term debt: $5.2 million.
Spent $4.6 million — $4.3 million to run schools, about $15,003 per student, plus $198,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.8 million local (mostly property tax), $1.3 million state, $564,000 federal. Long-term debt: $2.9 million.
Spent $3.8 million — $3 million to run schools, about $16,190 per student, plus $852,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.5 million local (mostly property tax), $723,000 state, $875,000 federal.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Hutchinson County about $18.8 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Very Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
160 bridges in Hutchinson County: 50 in good condition, 86 fair, and 24 poor (15.0%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
| SD044 over NORTH BR DRY CK · built 1964 | 1,651 vehicles a day |
| US018 over JAMES RV · built 1956 | 668 vehicles a day |
| ASH STREET over PONY CK · built 1950 | 317 vehicles a day |
| 27260 418 AVE. over PONY CK · built 1939 | 81 vehicles a day |
| 41840 280 ST. over DRY CK · built 1941 | 69 vehicles a day |
| 28550 421 AVE. over CK · built 1978 | 69 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $2.4 million of work in Hutchinson County in fiscal 2025, about $324 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for South Dakota are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Hutchinson County come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Hutchinson County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Hanson County (24 mi) · Bon Homme County (25 mi) · Yankton County (29 mi) · Turner County (30 mi) · McCook County (31 mi) · Douglas County (31 mi).