Arlington - Lake Preston is a very small town located in the state of South Dakota. With a population of 3,208 people and just one neighborhood, Arlington - Lake Preston is the 39th largest community in South Dakota. Much of the housing stock in Arlington - Lake Preston was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Unlike some towns, Arlington - Lake Preston isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Arlington - Lake Preston are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Arlington - Lake Preston is a town of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Arlington - Lake Preston who work in management occupations (18.43%), office and administrative support (9.28%), and sales jobs (6.42%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 11.59% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Because of many things, Arlington - Lake Preston is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Arlington - Lake Preston really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Arlington - Lake Preston perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
Arlington - Lake Preston 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 education level of Arlington - Lake Preston citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.63% of adults in Arlington - Lake Preston have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Arlington - Lake Preston in 2022 was $38,108, which is upper middle income relative to South Dakota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $152,432 for a family of four. However, Arlington - Lake Preston contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Arlington - Lake Preston home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Arlington - Lake Preston residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Arlington - Lake Preston include German, Norwegian, Irish, Danish, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Arlington - Lake Preston is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 7 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 97.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Danish and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish ancestry and 24.3% have Norwegian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Arlington - Lake Preston are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.8% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 62.1% of America'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, 40.4% 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 28.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.7%), and 12.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.0% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Arlington - Lake Preston, SD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (33.2%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (24.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.4%), and some of the residents are also of Danish ancestry (6.7%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (4.0%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (76.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (7.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.