Box Elder, South Dakota

Box Elder population, 2020 to 2024

Box Elder added 1,941 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +16.2%. In the latest year it moved by +37. Among 18 South Dakota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 3rd; the median place changed by +2.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in South Dakota has 13,845 people, so Box Elder is 1.0 times that size.

Box Elder covers 14.83 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 936 people per square mile of land. The median South Dakota place of 5,000+ has 1,459, so Box Elder is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties Box Elder spans

Box Elder crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 13,887 residents as follows; Pennington County holds 63.6% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Box Elder

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Box Elder by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 57706, 57719. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Box Elder is

The Census internal point of Box Elder is at 44.110900, -103.081100. Pierre, the capital, is 136.5 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Rapid City, SD (79,894 people), 7.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fort Collins, CO, 266.2 miles away.

Daylight in Box Elder

At 44.11° N, Box Elder gets about 15 h 30 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 52 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 38 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Box Elder

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in South Dakota, measured between internal points. The closest is Rapid City, 7.3 miles away, with 79,894 people.