Blackhawk is a very small town located in the state of South Dakota. With a population of 3,026 people and just one neighborhood, Blackhawk is the 44th largest community in South Dakota.
Blackhawk real estate is some of the most expensive in South Dakota, although Blackhawk house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Unlike some towns, Blackhawk isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Blackhawk are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Blackhawk is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Blackhawk who work in office and administrative support (16.76%), healthcare (10.51%), and sales jobs (8.41%).
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Blackhawk has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Blackhawk a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Blackhawk does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Blackhawk are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.92% of adults in Blackhawk have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Blackhawk in 2022 was $37,350, which is upper middle income relative to South Dakota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $149,400 for a family of four. However, Blackhawk contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Blackhawk is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Blackhawk home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Blackhawk residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Blackhawk include German, English, Irish, Norwegian, and Scandinavian.
The most common language spoken in Blackhawk is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Eastern European and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Eastern European ancestry and 8.4% have Norwegian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.3% 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 98.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Blackhawk are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 56.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.1% 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 60.8% of America'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, 35.3% 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 24.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.5%), and 16.3% 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 95.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, Spanish and Polish.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Blackhawk, SD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (37.4%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (8.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.2%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 (59.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.6%) 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 (6.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.