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Dell Rapids, SD

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Overview


Dell Rapids is a very small city located in the state of South Dakota. With a population of 3,931 people and just one neighborhood, Dell Rapids is the 28th largest community in South Dakota.

Dell Rapids real estate is some of the most expensive in South Dakota, although Dell Rapids house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Dell Rapids isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Dell Rapids are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Dell Rapids is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dell Rapids who work in healthcare (13.02%), management occupations (10.06%), and office and administrative support (9.86%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Dell Rapids is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Dell Rapids a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The city’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Dell Rapids has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Dell Rapids’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

As is often the case in a small city, Dell Rapids doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The citizens of Dell Rapids are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 34.56% of adults in Dell Rapids have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Dell Rapids in 2018 was $39,941, 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 $159,764 for a family of four. However, Dell Rapids contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Dell Rapids home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dell Rapids residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Dell Rapids include German, Norwegian, Irish, English, and Dutch.

The most common language spoken in Dell Rapids is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Scandinavian languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Dell Rapids, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 89.1% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.3% of all American neighborhoods.

People

If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 10.7% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of South Dakota. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools. In addition to being an excellent choice for families with school-aged children, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for highly educated executives.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 20.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 8.0% have Dutch ancestry.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Dell Rapids are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 65.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 44.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 23.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.2%), and 12.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Dell Rapids, SD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (33.6%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (20.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.8%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (8.0%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.0% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (89.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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