Sioux Falls is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of South Dakota. With a population of 124,096 people and 25 constituent neighborhoods, Sioux Falls is the largest community in South Dakota.

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Sioux Falls is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Sioux Falls is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sioux Falls who work in office and administrative support jobs (20.27%), sales jobs (12.97%), and management occupations (7.34%).

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

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Sioux Falls spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 15.73 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.

Sioux Falls Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Sioux Falls 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: 27.80% of adults in Sioux Falls have a college degree.

The per capita income in Sioux Falls in 2000 was $21,374, which is wealthy relative to South Dakota, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $85,496 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Sioux Falls is English. Some people also speak Spanish.