Rank 10 of 51 by domestic migration per 1,000

South Dakota

All three channels point the same way in South Dakota: arrivals from other states, arrivals from other countries, and births over deaths. Growth here does not depend on any single door.

Measured as counts rather than rates, the channel that moved the most people in South Dakota over 2021–2024 was domestic migration. That is a statement about volume, not direction: a channel can be the largest by losing.

Domestic migrationmoved the most people+21,045+22.8 per 1,000 residentsMovers arriving from, or leaving for, other US states.

International migration+6,601+7.1 per 1,000 residentsNet arrivals from outside the United States.

Births minus deaths+8,576+9.3 per 1,000 residentsNatural change. Not migration at all, and frequently mistaken for it.

Year by year

Counts of people. Bars share one scale across all 4 years and all three channels, so a short bar is a small number rather than a rescaled one.

South Dakota, components of population change. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 Population Estimates: components of change.
Year	Domestic	International	Births	Deaths	Natural
2021	+6,124	+1,101	11,064	9,769	+1,295
2022	+8,253	+2,570	11,254	9,207	+2,047
2023	+4,536	+1,314	11,171	8,525	+2,646
2024	+2,132	+1,616	11,311	8,723	+2,588

Ranked just above and below South Dakota

9Arizona+29.3 / 1,000 11Texas+22.2 / 1,000

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Vintage-year 2020 is published for a partial period and carries no companion rate, so it is excluded rather than shown alongside four full years it cannot be compared with. A work of the U.S. government: no copyright subsists (17 U.S.C. §105). Source file