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Box Elder city, South Dakota: commercial real estate data.
Box Elder city is a Census city of 12,902 people across 14.83 square miles of land, lying across Pennington County and Meade County. Median household income is $73,008, 48.2 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 12 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $6.5 m.
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Box Elder
What Box Elder is
- Census place typecity
- Land area14.83 sq mi
- Water area0.02 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land870
- County holding the largest share of its areaPennington County, 89.8 percent
- Counties this place lies inPennington County 89.8 percent, Meade County 10.2 percent
Box Elder city crosses a county line. The split above is measured from the Census boundary of the place against the county boundaries, by area, so it says where the ground is and not where the town hall is.
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Box Elder
How many people live in Box Elder
- Population12,902
- Median age28.8
- Population under 183,470
- Share under 1826.9 percent
- Population 65 and over963 plus or minus 253
- Share 65 and over7.5 percent plus or minus 2.0
- Households4,679
- Family households3,489
- Share of households that are families74.6 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Box Elder
Income and work in Box Elder
- Median household income$73,008
- Per capita income$33,308
- Civilian labor force5,987
- Employed5,693
- Unemployed294 plus or minus 242
- Unemployment rate4.9 percent plus or minus 4.0
- Adults 25 and over7,601
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher92.4 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher28.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree8.0 percent plus or minus 2.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Box Elder
Housing in Box Elder
- Housing units5,149
- Occupied units4,679
- Vacant units470 plus or minus 242
- Vacancy rate9.1 percent plus or minus 4.5
- Owner occupied2,257
- Renter occupied2,422 plus or minus 536
- Ownership rate48.2 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$302,100
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,491
- Annual rent as a share of median income24.5 percent
- Single family units3,246
- Share single family63.0 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more990 plus or minus 278
- Share in buildings of two or more19.2 percent plus or minus 4.7
- Mobile homes829 plus or minus 269
- Median year structure built2004
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Box Elder
How Box Elder gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute6,612
- Commuting under 15 minutes2,581 plus or minus 2,294
- Share commuting under 15 minutes39.0 percent plus or minus 34.4
- Commuting 30 minutes or more1,214 plus or minus 350
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more18.4 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Drove alone75.8 percent plus or minus 15.1
- Carpooled12.8 percent plus or minus 3.2
- Public transport0.8 percent plus or minus 1.2
- Walked2.0 percent plus or minus 7.7
- Worked from home6.9 percent plus or minus 2.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Box Elder
SBA 7(a) lending to Box Elder borrowers
- Approvals12
- Gross approval$6,471,000
- Average approval$539,250
- Median approval$91,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$750,000
- Largest approval$4,580,000
- Jobs supported215
- Jobs per approval17.9
- Loans with a final outcome4
- Paid in full4
- Charged off0
- Median term84 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more8.3 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders7
- Distinct industries by NAICS8
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 4 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Box Elder
SBA 504 lending to Box Elder borrowers
- Approvals8
- Gross approval$6,426,000
- Average approval$803,250
- Median approval$598,000
- Largest approval$1,895,000
- Jobs supported154
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Charged off0
- Median term300 months
- Distinct CDCs2
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Pennington County, not Box Elder
Pennington County context, not Box Elder figures
These are Pennington County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Box Elder measurements.
- Establishments in Pennington County4,137
- Employment at those establishments, Pennington County52,402
- Covered employment, Pennington County62,114
- Average annual pay, Pennington County$57,286
- Average weekly wage, Pennington County$1,102
- Housing units permitted, Pennington County1,183
- Of those, single family, Pennington County447
- County product, 2024, Pennington County$8,688,330,000
- County product change over the prior year, Pennington County5.6 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Pennington County$79,958
Every figure in this section is published for Pennington County as a whole and is not a measurement of Box Elder. 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
Box Elder questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Box Elder, South Dakota?
12,902, in 4,679 households. Box Elder city covers 14.83 square miles of land, which is 870 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Box Elder in?
Box Elder lies in more than one. By area it is 89.8 percent in Pennington County, 10.2 percent in Meade County. This page sits under Pennington County because that county holds the largest share. The split is measured from the Census boundary of the place against the county boundaries.
What is the median household income in Box Elder?
$73,008. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $302,100. Median gross rent is $1,491 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Box Elder businesses?
12 7(a) approvals totalling $6.5 m, across 7 lenders, median approval $91,000, plus 8 504 approvals worth $6.4 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Box Elder, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Box Elder borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Box Elder. only 4 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Are the county figures on this page Box Elder figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Pennington 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 Box Elder.
Is zoning published for Box Elder?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.