Does South Dakota have a county that doesn’t have a SNAP-eligible retailer?

Ziebach County doesn’t have a retailer that can accept food stamps and has the sixth-highest percentage of residents who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits in the nation at 43.5%. 

Two other counties are in the top 10: Todd County (third, at 49.3%) and Oglala Lakota County (eighth, at 43%). All three are home to Native American reservations.

Five other counties have only one SNAP-eligible retailer: Campbell, Hanson, Harding, Sanborn and Sully, while seven have two retailers. The lack of retailers can lead to people having to drive longer distances to get SNAP-eligible items.

Residents on the west side of Ziebach County can drive to Meade and Perkins counties. And residents on the east and north can go to Dewey county, where some SNAP-eligible retailers are near county lines.

Ziebach County covers the western part of the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation. Residents have a median income of $26,211.