Brookings, South Dakota

Brookings population, 2020 to 2024

Brookings added 1,184 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.1%. In the latest year it moved by +283. Among 18 South Dakota places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 7th; the median place changed by +2.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in South Dakota has 13,845 people, so Brookings is 1.8 times that size.

Brookings covers 13.96 square miles of land and 0.08 of water, for 1,759 people per square mile of land. The median South Dakota place of 5,000+ has 1,459, so Brookings is denser than the typical town.

What county Brookings is in

All of Brookings's residents live in Brookings County, which had 36,359 residents in 2024. Brookings holds 67.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Brookings

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Brookings by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 57006, 57007. 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 Brookings is

The Census internal point of Brookings is at 44.303400, -96.787300. Pierre, the capital, is 175.9 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Sioux Falls, SD (209,289 people), 52.8 miles away.

Daylight in Brookings

At 44.30° N, Brookings gets about 15 h 32 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 51 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 41 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Brookings

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in South Dakota, measured between internal points. The closest is Aurora, 5.3 miles away, with 1,159 people.