Clear Lake, South Dakota

Clear Lake population, 2020 to 2024

Clear Lake lost 18 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.5%. In the latest year it moved by -12.

Clear Lake covers 3.29 square miles of land and 0.18 of water, for 365 people per square mile of land. The median South Dakota place of 5,000+ has 1,459, so Clear Lake is less dense than the typical town.

What county Clear Lake is in

All of Clear Lake's residents live in Deuel County, which had 4,335 residents in 2024. Clear Lake holds 27.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Clear Lake

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Clear Lake by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 57226. 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 Clear Lake is

The Census internal point of Clear Lake is at 44.756300, -96.690200. Pierre, the capital, is 182.0 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Canby, MN (1,664 people), 20.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Sioux Falls, SD, 84.0 miles away.

Daylight in Clear Lake

At 44.76° N, Clear Lake gets about 15 h 35 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 48 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 47 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Clear Lake

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in South Dakota, measured between internal points. The closest is Watertown, 25.1 miles away, with 23,492 people.