Cavour is a tiny town located in the state of South Dakota. With a population of 133 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. 42.35% 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, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Cavour who work in management occupations (14.12%), office and administrative support (9.41%), and maintenance occupations (7.06%).
Overall, Cavour’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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 18.62 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 a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Cavour, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 100.00% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.
Being a small town, Cavour does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Cavour ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 4.76% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Cavour in 2022 was $23,705, which is low income relative to South Dakota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $94,820 for a family of four. However, Cavour contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Cavour is a very 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, English, Dutch, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Cavour is English. Other important languages spoken here include Other Asian languages and German/Yiddish.
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.
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 4 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.6% of America.
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 Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 40.6% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 6.7% have Norwegian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 4.7% 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 99.0% 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 59.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.0% 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 61.1% 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, 36.6% 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 36.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.6%), and 8.3% 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 93.6% 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 (40.6%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (6.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (4.7%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.0%), 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 (54.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (76.6%) 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 (11.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.