The top ten counties for registered passenger vehicles per 1000 population:
County | Population (est. 2009) | Car/Truck Regis./1000 people |
Harding | 1123 | 1952 |
Potter | 2053 | 1887 |
Campbell | 1344 | 1789 |
Sully | 1348 | 1690 |
Jones | 1037 | 1661 |
Haakon | 1777 | 1638 |
Perkins | 2869 | 1563 |
Gregory | 4003 | 1551 |
Hand | 3238 | 1541 |
Hanson | 3553 | 1537 |
Those high-vehicle counties are all relatively small counties. The ten counties with the lowest vehicles per population are an interesting mix:
County | Population (est. 2009) | Car/Truck Regis./1000 people |
Mellette | 2042 | 926 |
Bennett | 3348 | 898 |
Clay | 13490 | 897 |
Ziebach | 2552 | 853 |
Brookings | 30,056 | 840 |
Minnehaha | 183,048 | 824 |
Dewey | 5969 | 740 |
Buffalo | 2067 | 597 |
Todd | 10,095 | 530 |
Shannon | 13,727 | 448 |
Our largest county, Minnehaha, has the fifth-lowest number of registered vehicles proportional to population. (Keep bringing that ratio down, Minus Car and friends!) Of course, the concentration by geographical area still makes Sioux Falls a zoo. Beyond Minnehaha, the low registration numbers split between some of South Dakota's poorest counties and our two big campus counties, Clay and Brookings.
A few more interesting numbers from SDMVD:
- Harding County also has the highest hauling capacity by population, with 672 trailers registered per 1000 people.
- Custer County has the most motorcycle, moped, and ATV registrations: 162 per 1000 people.
- Kingsbury County is South Dakota's snowmobile champ, with one snowmobile registered for every 20 people. (Todd and Buffalo counties report zero snowmobiles licensed.)
- Hanson County has the most RVs registered per population, with more than one RV for every five people (218 per thousand). Lake County comes in second on that count, with about 1 for every 25 people (43 per thousand). Of course, a lot of those RVs and their drivers aren't actually here: Hanson and Lake both have businesses specializing in providing registration and mailboxes for tax dodgers. (But can we call them for jury duty?)
- You'll find the most boats per people in Stanley, Day, and Marshall counties.
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