Cavour is a tiny town located in the state of South Dakota. With a population of 129 people and just one neighborhood, Cavour is the 136th largest community in South Dakota.
When you are in Cavour, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.84% of Cavour’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Cavour is a town of transportation and shipping workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cavour who work in office and administrative support (14.47%), architecture and engineering (11.84%), and management occupations (9.21%).
The overall crime rate in Cavour is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
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!) Cavour 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. Cavour has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cavour than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cavour may be for you.
One of the benefits of Cavour is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.76 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Cavour is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Cavour isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100.00% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.
As is often the case in a small town, Cavour doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Cavour has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.94% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Cavour in 2022 was $24,179, which is low income relative to South Dakota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $96,716 for a family of four. However, Cavour contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Cavour is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cavour home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cavour residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Cavour include German, Norwegian, Irish, Polish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Cavour is English. Other important languages spoken here include Other Asian languages and German/Yiddish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 4 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 98.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.8%) living in the neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Austrian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 41.3% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 1.3% have Austrian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 4.2% 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 98.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Cavour are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.1% 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 63.4% of America's neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 38.8% 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 31.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.0%), and 10.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Polish.
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 Cavour, SD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (41.3%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (7.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.0%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (2.9%), among others.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (53.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (73.9%) 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 (15.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.