Eagle Butte is a very small city located in the state of South Dakota. With a population of 1,239 people and just one neighborhood, Eagle Butte is the 85th largest community in South Dakota.
Unlike some cities, Eagle Butte isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Eagle Butte are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Eagle Butte is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Eagle Butte who work in office and administrative support (18.81%), teaching (15.82%), and management occupations (8.96%).
Also of interest is that Eagle Butte has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Overall, Eagle Butte’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Eagle Butte spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 10.49 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.
Being a small city, Eagle Butte does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Eagle Butte who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.72% of the adults in Eagle Butte have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Eagle Butte in 2022 was $23,119, which is low income relative to South Dakota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $92,476 for a family of four. However, Eagle Butte contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Eagle Butte is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Eagle Butte home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Eagle Butte residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Eagle Butte include German, Irish, Norwegian, Russian, and Czech.
The most common language spoken in Eagle Butte is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Spanish.
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.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 92.8% 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 99.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
The government often provides some of the more stable jobs in the economy. From local, to state, to federal government workers, the government can also be a major employer. What NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed, is that the neighborhood in particular stands out when compared nationally for the proportion of its working residents who are employed by the government. At 21.3% of its workforce, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of government workers than 99.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 92.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 21.3% 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 99.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 95.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
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 Eagle Butte are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 40.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.3% of U.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, 38.4% 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 22.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.7%), and 21.3% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 84.3% of households. Some people also speak Native American languages (21.3%).
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 Eagle Butte, SD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (92.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (1.8%), and residents who report Mexican roots (1.2%).
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 (92.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (84.3%) 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 (9.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.