About Chamberlain

Chamberlain is a very small city located in the state of South Dakota. With a population of 2,385 people and just one neighborhood, Chamberlain is the 37th largest community in South Dakota.

Chamberlain is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Chamberlain is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Chamberlain who work in teaching (11.14%), office and administrative support jobs (11.05%), and sales jobs (10.97%).

One of the benefits of Chamberlain is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 13.27 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Being a small city, Chamberlain does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Chamberlain Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Chamberlain is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 14.96% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 28.74% of adults in Chamberlain have a college degree.

The per capita income in Chamberlain in 2000 was $17,018, which is upper middle income relative to South Dakota, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $68,072 for a family of four.

The people who call Chamberlain home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Chamberlain is White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Chamberlain include German, Norwegian, Irish, Czech, and English.

The most common language spoken in Chamberlain is English.