State>Interactive Map>South Dakota

South Dakota

Capital: Pierre

Facts & Statistics

STATE STATISTICS
Population 2018	882,235
Population 2017	873,286
Population 2016	862,890
Below Poverty 2017	13.0
Below Poverty 2016	13.3
Below Poverty 2015	13.7
Employment - Population Ratio 2018	66.6
Employment - Population Ratio 2017	66.7
Employment - Population Ratio 2016	67.1
Unemployed 2018	3.0
Unemployed 2017	3.2
Unemployed 2016	3.0
Foreclosure Rate 2018	1 of 14,065

STATE FACTS
Belle Fourche is the geographical center of the Untied States, designated in 1959 and noted by an official marker and sheepherder's monument called a "Stone Johnnie."
Sculptor Gutzon Borglum began drilling into the 6,200-foot Mount Rushmore in 1927. Creation of the shrine to democracy took 14 years and cost a mere $1 million, though it's now deemed priceless.
Badlands National Park consists of nearly 244,000 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles and spires blended with the largest protected mixed grass prairie in the United States.