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Bison town, South Dakota: commercial real estate data.
Bison town is a Census town of 406 people across 0.99 square miles of land, in Perkins County. Median household income is $71,607, 75.5 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $310,000.
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Bison
What Bison is
- Census place typetown
- Land area0.99 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land409
- County holding the largest share of its areaPerkins 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.
Bison
How many people live in Bison
- Population406
- Median age43.0
- Population under 18106 plus or minus 32
- Share under 1826.1 percent plus or minus 6.0
- Population 65 and over101 plus or minus 30
- Share 65 and over24.9 percent plus or minus 5.6
- Households188 plus or minus 44
- Family households136 plus or minus 39
- Share of households that are families72.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bison
Income and work in Bison
- Median household income$71,607 plus or minus $24,597
- Per capita income$36,473
- Civilian labor force200 plus or minus 53
- Employed200 plus or minus 53
- Unemployed0
- Unemployment rate0.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over274 plus or minus 62
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher97.4 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher22.6 percent plus or minus 7.7
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree0.7 percent plus or minus 3.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bison
Housing in Bison
- Housing units246
- Occupied units188 plus or minus 44
- Vacant units58 plus or minus 23
- Vacancy rate23.6 percent plus or minus 8.1
- Owner occupied142 plus or minus 41
- Renter occupied46 plus or minus 29
- Ownership rate75.5 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$82,000 plus or minus $34,240
- Median gross rent, monthly$932 plus or minus $266
- Annual rent as a share of median income15.6 percent plus or minus 7.0
- Single family units174 plus or minus 44
- Share single family70.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more28 plus or minus 26
- Share in buildings of two or more11.4 percent plus or minus 10.5
- Mobile homes44 plus or minus 25
- Median year structure built1963
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bison
How Bison gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute178 plus or minus 43
- Commuting under 15 minutes149 plus or minus 43
- Share commuting under 15 minutes83.7 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more14 plus or minus 15
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more7.9 percent plus or minus 8.3
- Drove alone77.0 percent plus or minus 28.6
- Carpooled5.0 percent plus or minus 4.3
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked4.5 percent plus or minus 2.8
- Worked from home11.0 percent plus or minus 12.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Bison
SBA loans in Bison (7(a))
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$310,000
- Average approval$310,000
- Median approval$310,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$310,000
- Largest approval$310,000
- Jobs supported4
- Jobs per approval4.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 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.
Perkins County, not Bison
Perkins County context, not Bison figures
These are Perkins County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Bison measurements.
- Establishments in Perkins County113
- Employment at those establishments, Perkins County734
- Covered employment, Perkins County1,119
- Average annual pay, Perkins County$41,738
- Average weekly wage, Perkins County$803
- Housing units permitted, Perkins County0
- Of those, single family, Perkins County0
- County product, 2024, Perkins County$175,636,000
- County product change over the prior year, Perkins County5.4 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Perkins County$43,111
Every figure in this section is published for Perkins County as a whole and is not a measurement of Bison. 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
Bison questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Bison, South Dakota?
406, in 188 households. Bison town covers 0.99 square miles of land, which is 409 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Bison in?
Perkins 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 Bison?
$71,607. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $82,000. Median gross rent is $932 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Bison businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $310,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $310,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Bison, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Bison borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Bison. only 0 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 Bison figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Perkins 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 Bison.
Is zoning published for Bison?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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