Custer, South Dakota

Custer population, 2020 to 2024

Custer lost 111 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -5.7%. In the latest year it moved by -44.

Custer covers 2.56 square miles of land, for 714 people per square mile of land. The median South Dakota place of 5,000+ has 1,459, so Custer is less dense than the typical town.

What county Custer is in

All of Custer's residents live in Custer County, which had 9,330 residents in 2024. Custer holds 19.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Custer

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Custer by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 57730. 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 Custer is

The Census internal point of Custer is at 43.766700, -103.599600. Pierre, the capital, is 166.8 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hot Springs, SD (3,608 people), 24.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fort Collins, CO, 234.7 miles away.

Daylight in Custer

At 43.77° N, Custer gets about 15 h 28 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 55 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 33 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Custer

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in South Dakota, measured between internal points. The closest is Hot Springs, 24.9 miles away, with 3,608 people.