The population of Yankton county is estimated at 22,626. In 2017 there were 291 births and 207 deaths in Yankton county. Yankton county has 3,634 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 2,416 that are owned free and clear and 2,720 that are renter occupied.

  The residents of Yankton County filed 10,920 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 2.6% of all South Dakota filings and 0.007% of the entire nation. Yankton had a combined total federal tax liability of $90,328,000 on earned income of $625,367,000. Other notable statistics from Yankton County were 170 unemployment claims which collected a total of $549,000 and 1,220 charitable contributions valued at $8,778,000. 1,300 filings from Yankton County paid a combined total of $4,610,000 in property taxes and 920 filings paid $6,042,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Yankton county had 35 religious congregations with an estimated 15,152 members.
27.5% of the Yankton population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 8.9% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

About 42% of Yankton County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This is a decrease from the 2012 election by 308 votes.
At $55,907 the median income is 98.3% of the South Dakota average. An estimated 341 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Yankton, the equivalant of around 3.0% of the county population. This represents an increase in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 2.6%.

Top 15 Industries in Yankton County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
2,808	Manufacturing
2,028	Health care and social assistance
1,554	Retail trade
1,013	Accommodation and food services
861	Food services and drinking places
731	Restaurants and other eating places
719	Machinery manufacturing
687	Transportation equipment manufacturing
640	Finance and insurance
524	Credit intermediation and related activities
490	General merchandise stores
485	Depository credit intermediation
466	Ambulatory health care services
454	Commercial banking
454	National commercial banks (banking)

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