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Wakpala CDP, South Dakota: commercial real estate data.
Wakpala CDP is a Census CDP of 144 people across 0.44 square miles of land, in Corson County. Median household income is $20,938, 31.7 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Wakpala
What Wakpala is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area0.44 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land329 plus or minus 142
- County holding the largest share of its areaCorson County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wakpala
How many people live in Wakpala
- Population144 plus or minus 62
- Median age32.8 plus or minus 13.4
- Population under 1850 plus or minus 22
- Share under 1834.7 percent
- Population 65 and over21 plus or minus 15
- Share 65 and over14.6 percent plus or minus 8.4
- Households41 plus or minus 15
- Family households27 plus or minus 13
- Share of households that are families65.9 percent plus or minus 20.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wakpala
Income and work in Wakpala
- Median household income$20,938 plus or minus $7,000
- Per capita income$9,694 plus or minus $5,693
- Civilian labor force42 plus or minus 26
- Employed19 plus or minus 16
- Unemployed23 plus or minus 18
- Unemployment rate54.8 percent plus or minus 26.2
- Adults 25 and over86 plus or minus 35
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher80.2 percent plus or minus 44.4
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher2.3 percent plus or minus 12.5
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wakpala
Housing in Wakpala
- Housing units47 plus or minus 15
- Occupied units41 plus or minus 15
- Vacant units6 plus or minus 5
- Vacancy rate12.8 percent plus or minus 9.8
- Owner occupied13 plus or minus 9
- Renter occupied28 plus or minus 12
- Ownership rate31.7 percent plus or minus 18.6
- Median owner-occupied home value$62,500 plus or minus $56,155
- Median gross rent, monthly$450
- Annual rent as a share of median income25.8 percent plus or minus 9.2
- Single family units37 plus or minus 17
- Share single family78.7 percent plus or minus 26.6
- Units in buildings of two or more5 plus or minus 12
- Share in buildings of two or more10.6 percent plus or minus 24.6
- Mobile homes5 plus or minus 4
- Median year structure built1991
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Wakpala
How Wakpala gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute19 plus or minus 16
- Commuting under 15 minutes2 plus or minus 10
- Share commuting under 15 minutes10.5 percent plus or minus 54.2
- Commuting 30 minutes or more6 plus or minus 12
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more31.6 percent plus or minus 59.2
- Drove alone100.0 percent
- Carpooled0.0 percent
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Corson County, not Wakpala
Corson County context, not Wakpala figures
These are Corson County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Wakpala measurements.
- Establishments in Corson County39
- Employment at those establishments, Corson County289
- Covered employment, Corson County755
- Average annual pay, Corson County$48,202
- Average weekly wage, Corson County$927
- Housing units permitted, Corson County0
- Of those, single family, Corson County0
- County product, 2024, Corson County$121,118,000
- County product change over the prior year, Corson County-3.9 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Corson County$27,176
Every figure in this section is published for Corson County as a whole and is not a measurement of Wakpala. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Wakpala questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Wakpala, South Dakota?
144, in 41 households. Wakpala CDP covers 0.44 square miles of land, which is 329 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Wakpala in?
Corson County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Wakpala?
$20,938. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $62,500. Median gross rent is $450 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Wakpala figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Corson County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Wakpala.
Is zoning published for Wakpala?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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