Keystone is a tiny town located in the state of South Dakota. With a population of 261 people and just one neighborhood, Keystone is the 131st largest community in South Dakota.
Keystone real estate is some of the most expensive in South Dakota, although Keystone house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Keystone is a blue-collar town, with 38.20% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Keystone is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Keystone who work in maintenance occupations (12.36%), healthcare suport services (10.11%), and farm management occupations (8.99%).
Also of interest is that Keystone has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Overall, Keystone’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Keystone has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Keystone has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Keystone than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Keystone may be for you.
One downside of living in Keystone, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.15 minutes every day commuting to work.
Keystone is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Keystone are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.49% of adults in Keystone have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Keystone in 2022 was $32,157, which is lower middle income relative to South Dakota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $128,628 for a family of four. However, Keystone contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Keystone is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Keystone home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Keystone residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Keystone also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 23.81% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Keystone include German, Irish, English, Swedish, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in Keystone is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Slavic languages.
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.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 16 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.6% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
A majority of the adults in the neighborhood are wealthy and educated executives. They own stately homes that tend to maintain high real estate appreciation rates. Their upper-level careers keep them busy, but allow them to live comfortably. If you're an executive and want to keep similar company, consider settling in this neighborhood, rated as an executive lifestyle "best choice" neighborhood for South Dakota by NeighborhoodScout's analysis, which rated it as better for executive lifestyles than 97.1% of the neighborhoods in South Dakota. In addition to being an excellent choice for highly educated executives, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for active retirees.
In addition, there is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.7%) living in the neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Norwegian and Danish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Norwegian ancestry and 1.9% have Danish ancestry.
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 Keystone are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 76.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.7% 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 64.5% of America'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, 41.1% 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 30.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (20.7%), and 6.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.3%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Keystone, SD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.0%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (8.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (4.8%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (73.1%) 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 (9.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.