South Dakota eviction research
State context for eviction filings, plus directories of South Dakota counties and major cities. Cited volumes come from named public sources — never from a fabricated local count.
What a filing means in South Dakota
An eviction filing is a court case asking a judge for possession of a rental unit. It is not a lockout. Self-help lockouts, utility shutoffs, and removing belongings without a court process are illegal. Local courts and executing offices set their own calendars — we do not publish guaranteed timelines.
South Dakota eviction actions are typically filed in circuit court or magistrate court.
EvictIQ operational timestamps (service attempts, writ applications, setout windows) are not claimed for this state. What follows is process education and public-source geography, not a field-coverage claim.
None of this is legal advice. Statutes, local rules, and court practice change.
Major cities
No Eviction Lab 2016 city ranking row is attached to the cities listed below. We do not invent a substitute figure. See Eviction Lab.
Counties and county-equivalents
Every South Dakota county-equivalent has a page. Templates are intentionally thin: a filing is a court case, not a lockout, and we do not invent a county filing total when we do not have one.
- Aurora County
- Beadle County
- Bennett County
- Bon Homme County
- Brookings County
- Brown County
- Brule County
- Buffalo County
- Butte County
- Campbell County
- Charles Mix County
- Clark County
- Clay County
- Codington County
- Corson County
- Custer County
- Davison County
- Day County
- Deuel County
- Dewey County
- Douglas County
- Edmunds County
- Fall River County
- Faulk County
Showing the first 24 alphabetically. Use the full county index for the rest.
Using this as research, not a hire form
Eviction Labs publishes geography and method. Eviction services — if you need them — live on sister sites, not as the point of these pages.