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Table 8

SOUTH DAKOTA

Offenses Known to Law Enforcement

by Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties, 2016

[The data shown in this table do not reflect county totals but are the number of offenses reported by the sheriff's office or county police department.]

Metropolitan/ Nonmetropolitan County Violent
crime
Murder and
nonnegligent
manslaughter
Rape
(revised
definition)1
Rape
(legacy
definition)2
Robbery Aggravated
assault
Property
crime
Burglary Larceny-
theft
Motor
vehicle
theft
Arson
Metropolitan Counties Custer 4 0 1 0 3 42 8 30 4 0
Lincoln 14 0 1 1 12 216 65 139 12 1
McCook 3 0 0 0 3 32 7 22 3 0
Meade 23 2 4 0 17 104 25 66 13 1
Minnehaha 47 4 6 1 36 424 171 222 31 3
Pennington 118 1 52 5 60 382 78 280 24 1
Turner 11 0 1 0 10 50 10 31 9 0
Union 10 0 3 0 7 46 4 39 3 0
Nonmetropolitan Counties Aurora 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 4 0 0
Beadle 5 1 0 0 4 14 4 6 4 0
Bennett 3 0 0 0 3 5 1 1 3 0
Bon Homme 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Brookings 6 0 0 0 6 53 12 37 4 0
Brown 9 0 1 0 8 41 11 25 5 0
Butte 1 0 0 0 1 87 11 71 5 0
Campbell 1 0 0 0 1 6 4 2 0 0
Charles Mix 6 0 1 1 4 36 20 10 6 1
Clark 3 0 2 0 1 8 3 5 0 0
Clay 9 0 1 0 8 67 30 35 2 0
Codington 9 0 2 0 7 40 3 33 4 0
Corson 1 0 0 1 0 32 7 22 3 0
Davison 3 0 2 0 1 18 5 8 5 0
Deuel 1 0 0 0 1 27 4 20 3 0
Dewey 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Douglas 2 0 0 0 2 4 2 1 1 0
Edmunds 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 2 0 0
Faulk 0 0 0 0 0 14 5 9 0 1
Hamlin 6 0 1 0 5 17 4 12 1 0
Harding 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
Hughes 7 0 1 0 6 21 11 7 3 0
Hutchinson 0 0 0 0 0 11 9 1 1 0
Jerauld 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lawrence 8 0 0 2 6 168 14 152 2 0
Marshall 9 0 5 0 4 47 14 26 7 0
McPherson 1 0 1 0 0 14 7 4 3 0
Miner 0 0 0 0 0 6 5 1 0 0
Moody 4 0 0 0 4 12 3 9 0 0
Oglala Lakota 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Potter 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Roberts 10 0 0 0 10 13 4 5 4 0
Sanborn 8 1 1 0 6 29 12 16 1 1
Spink 2 0 1 0 1 38 10 28 0 0
Stanley 4 0 1 0 3 11 6 1 4 0
Sully 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0
Tripp 0 0 0 0 0 16 0 15 1 0
Walworth 4 0 1 1 2 4 0 4 0 0
Yankton 16 0 4 0 12 38 15 16 7 0
Ziebach 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  • 1 The figures shown in this column for the offense of rape were reported using the revised Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) definition of rape. See the data declaration for further explanation.
  • 2 The figures shown in this column for the offense of rape were reported using the legacy UCR definition of rape. See the data declaration for further explanation.

Data Declaration

Provides the methodology used in constructing this table and other pertinent information about this table.