Jerauld County has a predicted average indoor radon screening level greater than 4 pCi/L (pico curies per liter) - Highest Potential
Percentage of residents living in poverty in 2009: 8.7%
Average household size:
| This city: | 1.9 people | | South Dakota: | 2.5 people |
Percentage of family households:
| This city: | 56.6% | | Whole state: | 67.0% |
Percentage of households with unmarried partners:
| This city: | 4.4% | | Whole state: | 4.8% |
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Detailed information about poverty and poor residents in Wessington Springs, SD
39 people in nursing homes
Wessington Springs compared to South Dakota state average:
- Median household income below state average.
- Median house value significantly below state average.
- Unemployed percentage below state average.
- Black race population percentage significantly below state average.
- Hispanic race population percentage significantly below state average.
- Median age significantly above state average.
- Foreign-born population percentage significantly below state average.
- Length of stay since moving in above state average.
- House age above state average.
- Institutionalized population percentage above state average.
- Number of college students significantly below state average.
- Percentage of population with a bachelor's degree or higher below state average.
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Banks with branches in Wessington Springs (2011 data):
- American Bank & Trust: at 120 East Main Street, branch established on 01/01/1892. Info updated 11/03/2006: Bank assets: $0.3 mil, Deposits: $20.6 mil, local headquarters, positive income, Agricultural Specialization, 7 total offices, Holding Company: Leackco Bank Holding Company, Inc.
Educational Attainment (%)
School Enrollment by Level of School (%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (55%)
- Electricity (28%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (15%)
- Wood (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
2004 Presidential Election results in Jerauld County South Dakota:
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Religion statistics for Wessington Springs:
Percentage of population affiliated with a religious congregations: 73.03%
| Here |  | 73.0% |
| USA |  | 50.2% |
Breakdown of population affiliated with a religious congregations
| Name | Catholic Church | United Church of Christ | United Methodist Church | Evangelical Lutheran Church in America | Other |
| Adherents | 20.7% | 19.9% | 19.6% | 19.5% | 20.3% |
| Congregations | 9.1% | 27.3% | 18.2% | 9.1% | 36.4% |
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Source: Jones, Dale E., et al. 2002. Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Nashville, TN: Glenmary Research Center. Tables represent county-level data.
Food Environment Statistics:Number of grocery stores: 1 | Jerauld County: | 5.04 / 10,000 pop. | | South Dakota: | 2.84 / 10,000 pop. |
Number of convenience stores (with gas): 2 | Jerauld County: | 10.07 / 10,000 pop. | | State: | 6.68 / 10,000 pop. |
Number of full-service restaurants: 3 | Here: | 15.11 / 10,000 pop. | | State: | 9.21 / 10,000 pop. |
Adult diabetes rate: | This county: | 8.1% | | South Dakota: | 7.7% |
Adult obesity rate: | Jerauld County: | 25.5% | | South Dakota: | 27.7% |
| Local government employment and payroll (March 2007) |
| Function |
Full-time employees |
Monthly full-time payroll |
Average yearly full-time wage |
Part-time employees |
Monthly part-time payroll |
| Financial Administration |
2 | $4,501 | $27,006 | 0 | $0 |
| Police Protection - Officers |
1 | $2,307 | $27,684 | 0 | $0 |
| Streets and Highways |
2 | $4,501 | $27,006 | 0 | $0 |
| Solid Waste Management |
0 | $0 | | 1 | $520 |
| Water Supply |
2 | $4,501 | $27,006 | 0 | $0 |
| Electric Power |
2 | $4,501 | $27,006 | 0 | $0 |
| Local Libraries |
0 | $0 | | 1 | $1,366 |
| Totals for Government |
9 | $20,311 | $27,081 | 2 | $1,886 |
Wessington Springs government finances in 2002:
- Charges - Solid Waste Management: $69,000 ($83.03)
Sewerage: $45,000 ($54.15)
- Current Operations - Electric Utilities: $477,000 ($574.01)
Liquor Stores: $205,000 ($246.69)
Regular Highways: $176,000 ($211.79)
Water Utilities: $104,000 ($125.15)
Solid Waste Management: $97,000 ($116.73)
Financial Administration: $83,000 ($99.88)
Police Protection: $74,000 ($89.05)
Parks & Recreation: $53,000 ($63.78)
Sewerage: $34,000 ($40.91)
Libraries: $21,000 ($25.27)
Fire Protection: $10,000 ($12.03)
- Long Term Debt Beginning Outstanding - Water Utilities: $217,000 ($261.13)
- Long Term Debt Outstanding Nonguaranteed - Water Utilities: $213,000 ($256.32)
- Long Term Debt Retired Unspecified - Water Utilities: $4,000 ($4.81)
- Miscellaneous - Interest Earnings: $44,000 ($52.95)
- Other Funds - Cash & Deposits: $713,000 ($858.00)
- Revenue - Electric Utilities: $631,000 ($759.33)
Liquor Stores: $206,000 ($247.89)
Water Utilities: $112,000 ($134.78)
- State Intergovernmental - Highways: $25,000 ($30.08)
- Tax - Total General Sales: $188,000 ($226.23)
Property: $98,000 ($117.93)
NEC: $6,000 ($7.22)
Motor Vehicle License: $6,000 ($7.22)
- Total Salaries & Wages: $343,000 ($412.76)
- Water Utilities - Interest on Debt: $15,000 ($18.05)
5.90% of this county's 2006 resident taxpayers lived in other counties in 2005 ($38,283 average adjusted gross income) | Here: | 5.90% | | South Dakota average: | 8.40% |
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved from foreign countries between 2005 and 2006.
Top counties from which taxpayers relocated into this county between 2005 and 2006:
8.14% of this county's 2005 resident taxpayers moved to other counties in 2006 ($37,733 average adjusted gross income) | Here: | 8.14% | | South Dakota average: | 8.34% |
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved to foreign countries between 2005 and 2006.
Top counties to which taxpayers relocated from this county between 2005 and 2006:
Strongest AM radio stations in Wessington Springs:
- KOKK (1210 AM; 5 kW; HURON, SD; Owner: DAKOTA COMMUNICATIONS, LTD.)
- KXMR (710 AM; 50 kW; BISMARCK, ND; Owner: RADIO BISMARCK MANDAN, LLC)
- KGFX (1060 AM; 10 kW; PIERRE, SD; Owner: JAMES RIVER BROADCASTING COMPANY)
- KIJV (1340 AM; 1 kW; HURON, SD; Owner: THREE EAGLES OF HURON, INC.)
- KRVN (880 AM; 50 kW; LEXINGTON, NE; Owner: NEBRASKA RURAL RADIO ASSOCIATION)
- KXRB (1000 AM; 10 kW; SIOUX FALLS, SD)
- KSOO (1140 AM; 10 kW; SIOUX FALLS, SD; Owner: SOUTHERN MINNESOTA BROADCASTING CO.)
- WCCO (830 AM; 50 kW; MINNEAPOLIS, MN; Owner: INFINITY MEDIA CORPORATION)
- WNAX (570 AM; 5 kW; YANKTON, SD; Owner: SAGA COMMUNICATIONS, INC.)
- KOIL (1020 AM; 50 kW; PLATTSMOUTH, NE; Owner: WAITT RADIO, INC.)
- KKAA (1560 AM; 10 kW; ABERDEEN, SD; Owner: CLEAR CHANNEL BROADCASTING LICENSES, INC.)
- KFAB (1110 AM; 50 kW; OMAHA, NE; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
- KLOH (1050 AM; 9 kW; PIPESTONE, MN; Owner: WALLACE CHRISTENSEN)
Strongest FM radio stations in Wessington Springs:
- KZNC (99.1 FM; HURON, SD; Owner: THREE EAGLES OF HURON, INC.)
- KUQL (98.3 FM; WESSINGTON SPRINGS, SD; Owner: SAGA COMMUNICATIONS OF SOUTH DAKOTA, LLC)
- KTSD-FM (91.1 FM; RELIANCE, SD; Owner: SOUTH DAKOTA BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR ED. TELECOMMUNICATIONS)
- KMIT (105.9 FM; MITCHELL, SD; Owner: SAGA COMMUNICATIONS OF SOUTH DAKOTA, LLC)
- KZKK (105.1 FM; HURON, SD; Owner: DAKOTA COMMUNICATIONS, LTD.)
FCC Registered Antenna Towers: 12 ( See the full list of FCC Registered Antenna Towers in Wessington Springs)
FCC Registered Private Land Mobile Towers: 6 - .25 Mi West On Hwy 34 (Lat: 44.075000 Lon: -98.579528), Call Sign: KAA843, Licensee ID: L00081181
Assigned Frequencies: 39.1000 MHz, 39.3200 MHz Grant Date: 05/03/1999, Expiration Date: 07/19/2004, Cancellation Date: 09/26/2004
Registrant: County Of Jerauld, Sheriffs Office, Wessington Springs, SD 57382, Phone: (605) 539-1311 - Sd Hwy 34 2 Mi W (Lat: 44.083333 Lon: -98.628139), Call Sign: KEG226, Licensee ID: L00002012
Assigned Frequencies: 155.325 MHz, 155.340 MHz Grant Date: 03/07/2002, Expiration Date: 04/01/2011
Registrant: Bit/State Radio Communications Engineering, 1302 E. Hwy 14 Suite 8, Pierre, SD 57501, Phone: (605) 773-4635, Fax: (605) 773-7979, Email:
- 609 1st St Ne (Lat: 44.083333 Lon: -98.628139), Call Sign: KVA338, Licensee ID: L00089053
Assigned Frequencies: 155.325 MHz Grant Date: 11/17/2004, Expiration Date: 11/29/2014
Registrant: Weskota Memorial Medical Center, Wessington Springs, SD 57382, Phone: (605) 539-1201 - Cottonwood Lake Wtp-Intersection Of 221st St. & 368th Ave. (Lat: 44.181083 Lon: -98.828722), Type: Tank, Structure height: 45.7 m, Call Sign: WPRM284
Assigned Frequencies: 173.203 MHz Grant Date: 11/08/2005, Expiration Date: 11/15/2015, Certifier: Kurt Pfeifle
Registrant: Micro-Comm, Inc., 15895 S. Pflumm Rd., Olathe, KS 66062, Phone: (913) 390-4500, Fax: (913) 390-4550, Email:
- Wessington Springs Substation (Lat: 44.079167 Lon: -98.562028), Call Sign: WNGY221, Licensee ID: L00008030
Assigned Frequencies: 457.150 MHz Grant Date: 08/15/2001, Expiration Date: 09/15/2011
Registrant: East River Electric Power Cooperative, Box E, Madison, SD 57042, Phone: (605) 256-4536 - COTTONWOOD PRV, Cottonwood Prv - 37905 221st St (Lat: 44.182917 Lon: -98.610694), Type: Mast, Structure height: 6.1 m, Call Sign: WQIU206
Assigned Frequencies: 173.203 MHz Grant Date: 05/13/2008, Expiration Date: 05/13/2018, Certifier: Kurt Pfeifle
Registrant: Micro-Comm, Inc., 15895 S. Pflumm Road, Olathe, KS 66062, Phone: (913) 390-4500, Fax: (913) 390-4550, Email:
FCC Registered Microwave Towers: 4 - WESSINGTON SPRINGS, 1.47 Miles South - South West Of (Lat: 44.055528 Lon: -98.587028), Type: Tower, Structure height: 91.4 m, Overall height: 94.4 m, Call Sign: WNEL229
Assigned Frequencies: 2186.40 MHz, 2192.80 MHz, 6286.19 MHz, 6197.24 MHz, 6345.49 MHz Grant Date: 11/22/2000, Expiration Date: 12/08/2010, Certifier: Bruce A Mckinley
Registrant: Northwestern Corporation, 40 East Broadway Street, Butte, MT 59701, Phone: (406) 497-3845, Fax: (406) 497-3525, Email:
- WESSINGTON SPRS, 2 Mi W & 3.5 Mi S (Lat: 44.028361 Lon: -98.611833), Structure height: 52.7 m, Call Sign: WPOR476
Assigned Frequencies: 6256.54 MHz, 6315.84 MHz Grant Date: 03/17/2009, Expiration Date: 03/15/2019
Registrant: East River Electric Power Cooperative, Inc., 121 Se First Street, Madison, SD 57042, Phone: (605) 256-8020, Fax: (605) 256-8058, Email:
- 3 Mi W (Lat: 44.083333 Lon: -98.628139), Structure height: 61 m, Overall height: 93.9 m, Call Sign: WDT969, Licensee ID: L00002012
Assigned Frequencies: 6950.00 MHz Grant Date: 11/05/1986, Expiration Date: 04/01/2014, Cancellation Date: 04/11/2007
Registrant: South Dakota Board Of Directors For Ed. Telecommunications, Cherry & Dakota Streets Po Box 5000, Vermillion, SD 57069-5000 - 3 Mi W. Of Wessington Springs (Lat: 44.083333 Lon: -98.628139), Structure height: 61 m, Overall height: 91.4 m, Call Sign: WDT971, Licensee ID: L00002012
Assigned Frequencies: 7025.00 MHz Grant Date: 11/05/1986, Expiration Date: 04/01/2014, Cancellation Date: 04/11/2007
Registrant: South Dakota Board Of Directors For Ed. Telecommunications, Cherry & Dakota Streets Po Box 5000, Vermillion, SD 57069-5000
FCC Registered Paging Towers: 1 - North Of Rt. 34, 1.3 Miles West Of Wessington Springs. (Lat: 44.074972 Lon: -98.600361), Call Sign: KDS660, Licensee ID: L00116202
Assigned Frequencies: 152.210 MHz Expiration Date: 04/01/1999, Cancellation Date: 06/05/1999
Registrant: Midwest Mobile Communications, R R 10 Box 460, Winner, SD 57580
FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses: 9 ( See the full list of FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses in Wessington Springs)
FAA Registered Aircraft: 1 - Aircraft: 35-C33 (Category: Land, Seats: 4, Weight: Up to 12,499 Pounds, Speed: 138 mph), Engine: CONT MOTOR I0-470 SERIES (260 HP) (Reciprocating)
N-Number: 5873J , Serial Number: CD-926, Year manufactured: 1965, Airworthiness Date: 06/28/1965
Registrant (Co-Owned): Dennis W Amick, 38056 240th St, Wessington Springs, SD 57382, Other Owners: Lynette M Amick
| Most common first names in Wessington Springs, SD among deceased individuals |
| Name | Count | Lived (average) |
| John | 21 | 79.5 years |
| Mary | 20 | 82.7 years |
| Anna | 17 | 87.6 years |
| Charles | 16 | 80.4 years |
| George | 16 | 81.3 years |
| Robert | 14 | 73.6 years |
| Henry | 12 | 81.0 years |
| Kenneth | 12 | 76.8 years |
| Walter | 11 | 81.6 years |
| William | 11 | 80.4 years |
| Most common last names in Wessington Springs, SD among deceased individuals |
| Last name | Count | Lived (average) |
| Thompson | 13 | 77.8 years |
| Christensen | 10 | 77.0 years |
| Schimke | 10 | 80.0 years |
| Powell | 9 | 86.3 years |
| Johnson | 9 | 69.8 years |
| Fuerst | 9 | 75.3 years |
| Kludt | 8 | 82.6 years |
| Scott | 8 | 87.7 years |
| Olson | 7 | 84.5 years |
| Miller | 7 | 84.2 years |
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