Summit is a tiny town located in the state of South Dakota. With a population of 279 people and just one neighborhood, Summit is the 129th largest community in South Dakota. Summit has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Unlike some towns, Summit isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Summit are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Summit is a town of service providers, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Summit who work in food service (14.20%), management occupations (13.58%), and office and administrative support (12.96%).
Also of interest is that Summit has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Summit’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Summit is worth considering.
Being a small town, Summit does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Summit is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.33% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Summit in 2022 was $23,023, which is low income relative to South Dakota and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $92,092 for a family of four. However, Summit contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Summit is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Summit home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Summit residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Summit include German, Norwegian, Irish, Polish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Summit is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Polish.
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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 8 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 97.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 96.5% 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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 55.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 10.0% have Norwegian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.6% 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 98.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Summit are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 37.6% 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 24.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.2%), and 17.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.1% of households. Some people also speak Polish (3.1%).
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 Summit, SD, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (55.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (21.8%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (10.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.9%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (3.6%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (84.4%) 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.