Another notable thing is that Rapid City is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the town experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller town.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Rapid City has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Rapid City has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Rapid City than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Rapid City may be for you.
In Rapid City, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.95 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Rapid City is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of adults in Rapid City with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.92% of adults in Rapid City have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Rapid City in 2022 was $36,532, which is upper middle income relative to Michigan, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $146,128 for a family of four. However, Rapid City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Rapid City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rapid City residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Rapid City include German, Irish, English, Polish, and European.
The most common language spoken in Rapid City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
