About Highmore

Highmore is a tiny city located in the state of South Dakota. With a population of 864 people and just one neighborhood, Highmore is the 90th largest community in South Dakota. Highmore has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.

Highmore is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Highmore is a city of service providers, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Highmore who work in office and administrative support jobs (14.60%), management occupations (11.39%), and teaching (9.41%).

You will also find that a lot of people in Highmore work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.

A very large number of seniors call Highmore home: people 65 and over are 28.01% of the population. Because of the prominence of the retirement community, this is good place for the over-65 crowd to settle, as many of the city's services and social community are geared to this demographic.

Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 10.74 minutes getting to work every day.

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

Highmore Information and Demographics

The population of Highmore overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 14.96%. Of adults 25 and older in Highmore, 17.60% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Highmore in 2000 was $17,309, 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 $69,236 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Highmore is English. Some people also speak German.