South Dakota Population, Demographics, and Statistics


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South Dakota Population, Demographics, and Statistics

The total area of land in South Dakota is 75,884 square miles. There are on average 9.9 people living within each square mile of the state. In 2000 there were 754,844 people living in the state within 290,245 households (averaging 2.50 people in each household) but by 2009 the population had increased to 812,383 with an estimated 7.6% change.

The average income per person in 1999 for South Dakota was $17,562. By 2007 the income was $35,760. The average income in each household was $46,244 in 2008. The percentage of South Dakota residents living in poverty in 2008 was 12.7%. The total personal income for the state in 2007 was $28,454 (in millions of dollars). The average per job earnings was $36,089 in 2007.

In 2009 there were about 365,532 housing units within the state of South Dakota, a change of 42,330 from 2000 (or about 13.1%). The percentage of housing units that were occupied by the owner in 2000 was 68.2%. The median value of each house was about $79,600 in the state in 2000. 3,691 building permits were issued in 2009 totaling $463,529 (thousands of dollars) in estimated value.

The number of South Dakota births in the year 2006 was 11,919 while the number of deaths occuring during the same year was 7,084. Infant deaths that year numbered 82.

In 2007, South Dakota jobs totaled 564,481 across all industries. This was a change of 45,253 jobs from 2000. The number of South Dakota jobs in government in 2007 was 80,724. Workers traveled an average of 16.6 minutes to work each day.

There were 69,536 businesses in South Dakota in 2002. These include 22.4% of businesses listed as owned by women, 0.2% of businesses owned by blacks, 0.5% of businesses owned by Hispanics, 0.4% of businesses owned by Asians, and 1.9% of businesses listed as owned by American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The amount of land in South Dakota devoted to farming was 43,666,403 acres in 2007.

In 2000 6.5% of residents spoke a language other than English at home. The percent of the state's population who were born in a foreign country was 1.8%.

The percentage of adults in South Dakota over the age of twenty-five who graduated high school as of 2000 was 84.6%. About 21.5% of county residents held at least a four-year college degree.

The number of people in South Dakota with a disability is 114,619.

There were 446,351 civilians working in South Dakota in 2009. The number unemployed was 21,270 (or 4.8% of the workforce).

The total sales of businesses involved in serving food and accommodation was $1,226,459 (thousands of dollars).

The estimated breakdown of population by age in 2009 included 59,640 residents less than five years old, (7.3% of residents), 199,616 less than eighteen years old (24.6% of residents), and 117,732 of the population of South Dakota was over the age of sixty-five (14.5% of residents).

The percentage of the population who were female in 2009 was 50.0%. The population classified as white was 713,702 (87.9%), black: 10,000 (1.2%), Asian: 7,219 (0.9%), two or more races: 12,013 (1.5%), Hispanic or Latino: 23,455 (2.9%).

The total listed sales for manufacturing in South Dakota was $10,710,187 (thousands of dollars) in 2002, total listed wholesale sales was $7,845,096 (thousands of dollars), and total listed retail sales of $9,601,175 (thousands of dollars). The total for all industries in earnings was $20,371,470 (thousands of dollars).
-from United States Census data

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