South Dakota · Census place 4614740

Crooks, South Dakota

Crooks is a city in Minnehaha County, South Dakota with an estimated 1,369 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 43rd largest of 64 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,369
#43 of 64 in South Dakota
Change since 2020
+0.0%
+0 people
Land area
1.3 sq mi
Density
1,061 / sq mi
State median 1,459
Orange pin: Crooks. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Pierre.

Crooks population, 2020 to 2024

Crooks added 0 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.0%. In the latest year it moved by +3.

1,36920201,37120211,38120221,36620231,3692024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,368. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Crooks covers 1.29 square miles of land, for 1,061 people per square mile of land. The median South Dakota place of 5,000+ has 1,459, so Crooks is less dense than the typical town.

What county Crooks is in

All of Crooks's residents live in Minnehaha County, which had 208,639 residents in 2024. Crooks holds 0.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Crooks

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Crooks by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 57020. 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 Crooks is

The Census internal point of Crooks is at 43.654800, -96.806800. Pierre, the capital, is 182.6 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hartford, SD (3,600 people), 6.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Sioux Falls, SD, 8.7 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
43.654800, -96.806800
DMS
43°39'17.28"N 96°48'24.48"W
UTM
14N 676856.2E 4835870.6N
Geohash
9zg0m557w
Plus code
86M5M53V+W7

Daylight in Crooks

At 43.65° N, Crooks gets about 15 h 27 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 56 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 31 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Crooks

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in South Dakota, measured between internal points. The closest is Hartford, 6.8 miles away, with 3,600 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Crooks, SD?

1,369 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 0 (0.0%) from 1,369 in July 2020.

What county is Crooks in?

Minnehaha County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Crooks?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 57020.

How far is Crooks from Pierre?

182.6 miles (293.9 km) in a straight line, heading WNW from Crooks.

What is the nearest larger city to Crooks?

Hartford, SD, with 3,600 residents, 6.8 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.