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Lake Preston city, South Dakota: commercial real estate data.
Lake Preston city is a Census city of 596 people across 0.76 square miles of land, in Kingsbury County. Median household income is $52,396, 61.7 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Lake Preston
What Lake Preston is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.76 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land785 plus or minus 157
- County holding the largest share of its areaKingsbury 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.
Lake Preston
How many people live in Lake Preston
- Population596 plus or minus 119
- Median age49.3
- Population under 18100 plus or minus 33
- Share under 1816.8 percent plus or minus 4.4
- Population 65 and over161 plus or minus 54
- Share 65 and over27.0 percent plus or minus 7.3
- Households269 plus or minus 58
- Family households144 plus or minus 35
- Share of households that are families53.5 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lake Preston
Income and work in Lake Preston
- Median household income$52,396 plus or minus $16,187
- Per capita income$35,256
- Civilian labor force254 plus or minus 64
- Employed253 plus or minus 63
- Unemployed1 plus or minus 3
- Unemployment rate0.4 percent plus or minus 1.2
- Adults 25 and over461 plus or minus 92
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher85.9 percent plus or minus 23.8
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher13.7 percent plus or minus 3.8
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree3.3 percent plus or minus 2.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lake Preston
Housing in Lake Preston
- Housing units291 plus or minus 60
- Occupied units269 plus or minus 58
- Vacant units22 plus or minus 20
- Vacancy rate7.6 percent plus or minus 6.7
- Owner occupied166 plus or minus 41
- Renter occupied103 plus or minus 41
- Ownership rate61.7 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$130,000 plus or minus $55,965
- Median gross rent, monthly$615
- Annual rent as a share of median income14.1 percent plus or minus 5.0
- Single family units202 plus or minus 49
- Share single family69.4 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more83 plus or minus 37
- Share in buildings of two or more28.5 percent plus or minus 11.4
- Mobile homes6 plus or minus 6
- Median year structure built1965
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lake Preston
How Lake Preston gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute224 plus or minus 59
- Commuting under 15 minutes102 plus or minus 36
- Share commuting under 15 minutes45.5 percent plus or minus 10.8
- Commuting 30 minutes or more109 plus or minus 35
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more48.7 percent
- Drove alone77.4 percent
- Carpooled10.3 percent plus or minus 6.3
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.8 percent plus or minus 1.2
- Worked from home11.1 percent plus or minus 8.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Lake Preston
SBA 504 lending to Lake Preston borrowers
- Approvals2
- Gross approval$1,178,000
- Average approval$589,000
- Median approval$961,000
- Largest approval$961,000
- Jobs supported11
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Distinct CDCs1
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Kingsbury County, not Lake Preston
Kingsbury County context, not Lake Preston figures
These are Kingsbury County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Lake Preston measurements.
- Establishments in Kingsbury County188
- Employment at those establishments, Kingsbury County1,254
- Covered employment, Kingsbury County1,814
- Average annual pay, Kingsbury County$47,846
- Average weekly wage, Kingsbury County$920
- Housing units permitted, Kingsbury County22
- Of those, single family, Kingsbury County22
- County product, 2024, Kingsbury County$370,004,000
- County product change over the prior year, Kingsbury County-10.2 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Kingsbury County$69,921
Every figure in this section is published for Kingsbury County as a whole and is not a measurement of Lake Preston. 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.
- 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
Lake Preston questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Lake Preston, South Dakota?
596, in 269 households. Lake Preston city covers 0.76 square miles of land, which is 785 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Lake Preston in?
Kingsbury 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 Lake Preston?
$52,396. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $130,000. Median gross rent is $615 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 Lake Preston figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Kingsbury 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 Lake Preston.
Is zoning published for Lake Preston?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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