City Commute Profile
Rapid City, SD
Where Rapid City’s 35,513 resident workers go each day — 74.5% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is Sioux Falls.
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How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.
These figures are for Rapid City proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.
How Rapid City commutes
Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.
Rapid City
35,513 commutes, one dot at a time
Rapid City
Where 35,513 workers commute
Where residents work
Top destinations for people who live in Rapid City, by worker count.
Who commutes in
Top origin places for workers who travel into Rapid City.
Top industries
The sectors that employ Rapid City’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.
Rapid City city profile
Who lives in Rapid City — population, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.
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