Kimball - Pukwana is a very small town located in the state of South Dakota. With a population of 2,521 people and just one neighborhood, Kimball - Pukwana is the 53rd largest community in South Dakota.
Unlike some towns, Kimball - Pukwana isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Kimball - Pukwana are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Kimball - Pukwana is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Kimball - Pukwana who work in management occupations (23.14%), sales jobs (17.41%), and office and administrative support (8.31%).
A relatively large number of people in Kimball - Pukwana telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 21.23% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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, Kimball - Pukwana 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, Kimball - Pukwana really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Kimball - Pukwana 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.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Kimball - Pukwana spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 19.08 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
The citizens of Kimball - Pukwana are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.27% of adults in Kimball - Pukwana having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Kimball - Pukwana in 2022 was $34,964, which is middle income relative to South Dakota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $139,856 for a family of four. However, Kimball - Pukwana contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Kimball - Pukwana is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Kimball - Pukwana home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Kimball - Pukwana residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Kimball - Pukwana include German, Czech, Irish, Norwegian, and English.
The most common language spoken in Kimball - Pukwana is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Tagalog.
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.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 3 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.7% of America.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 6.6% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 98.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 37.1% have German ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 5.1% 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 99.1% 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 Kimball - Pukwana are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 52.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 36.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 32.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (16.0%), and 8.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.6% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (5.1%).
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 Kimball - Pukwana, SD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (37.1%). There are also a number of people of Native American ancestry (7.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.4%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (6.3%), along with some English ancestry residents (6.3%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (61.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (9.3%) and 7.4% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.