Jefferson, SD

About Jefferson

Jefferson is a very small town located in the state of South Dakota. With a population of 1,151 people and just one neighborhood, Jefferson is the 74th largest community in South Dakota.

Jefferson is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Jefferson is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Jefferson who work in sales jobs (10.96%), office and administrative support jobs (10.96%), and business and financial occupations (8.26%).

Also of interest is that Jefferson has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One of the benefits of Jefferson is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 19.06 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 town, Jefferson does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Jefferson Information and Demographics

The education level of Jefferson citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 17.46% of adults in Jefferson have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Jefferson in 2000 was $17,553, 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 $70,212 for a family of four.

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