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Chamberlain, SD

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Overview


Chamberlain is a very small city located in the state of South Dakota. With a population of 2,498 people and just one neighborhood, Chamberlain is the 55th largest community in South Dakota.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Chamberlain isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Chamberlain are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Chamberlain is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Chamberlain who work in office and administrative support (13.62%), management occupations (10.91%), and teaching (10.14%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Chamberlain spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 11.53 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.

Chamberlain is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The education level of Chamberlain citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 29.63% of adults in Chamberlain have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Chamberlain in 2022 was $34,814, which is upper middle income relative to South Dakota, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $139,256 for a family of four. However, Chamberlain contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Chamberlain is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Chamberlain home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Chamberlain residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Chamberlain include German, Irish, English, European, and Norwegian.

The most common language spoken in Chamberlain is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Chamberlain, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Length of Commute

Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 77.5% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.

Occupations

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 3.8% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 95.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and Danish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 22.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 2.1% have Danish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Chamberlain are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.3% 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, 30.7% 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 26.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.1%), and 15.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.1% of households. Some people also speak Native American languages (2.7%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Chamberlain, SD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (22.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (20.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.5%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (5.1%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.8%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (77.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (71.6%) 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 (21.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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