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Lake Andes - Pickstown, SD

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Overview


Lake Andes - Pickstown is a very small town located in the state of South Dakota. With a population of 3,334 people and just one neighborhood, Lake Andes - Pickstown is the 35th largest community in South Dakota.

Occupations and Workforce

Lake Andes - Pickstown is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Lake Andes - Pickstown is a town of professionals, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lake Andes - Pickstown who work in management occupations (15.81%), teaching (10.48%), and healthcare (7.69%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 12.15% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Lake Andes - Pickstown spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 17.48 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.

Demographics

The citizens of Lake Andes - Pickstown are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 21.10% of adults in Lake Andes - Pickstown having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Lake Andes - Pickstown in 2018 was $24,611, which is low income relative to South Dakota, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $98,444 for a family of four. However, Lake Andes - Pickstown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Lake Andes - Pickstown also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.25% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

The most common language spoken in Lake Andes - Pickstown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 10 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 97.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Occupations

The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 95.5% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.

Diversity

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, 41.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 9.0% 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 99.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Lake Andes - Pickstown are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.8% 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, 43.5% 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 26.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (18.0%), and 13.1% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.8% of households. Some people also speak Native American languages (9.0%).

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 Lake Andes - Pickstown, SD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (41.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (20.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.0%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.2%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 (54.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (69.5%) 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 (8.8%) and 6.6% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work 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.


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