Category: Accolades

To determine where renters can get the most bang for their buck, WalletHub compared more than 180 markets on 22 key measures of rental attractiveness and quality of life. Data points ranged from the difference between rental rates and mortgage payments to historical price changes, cost of living and job availability.

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Dwellsy ranked over 350 metros on their attractiveness for renters with Sioux Falls listed at No. 3.

The study, based on factors such as rent prices, availability, employment, schools and health, determined which cities were the most renter friendly. Factors such as local art and food scenes were also considered.

With high-quality schools, affordable rentals, and low unemployment rates, the Midwest stood out as one of the best regions for renters.

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WalletHub’s 2021 Best & Worst States for Jobs lists South Dakota as the No.1 state in the nation. The study determines the most attractive states for employment based on 35 key indicators of job-market strength, opportunity and economic health.

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Location Matters 2021 – The State Tax Cost of Doing Business produced by the Tax Foundation and KPMG provides a comparative analysis of actual state business tax costs faced by businesses. The study accounts for all business taxes including corporate income, property, sales, unemployment insurance, capital stock, inventory, and gross receipts taxes. Economists designed eight model firms, and modeled each firm twice in each state: once as a new firm eligible for tax incentives and once as a mature firm not eligible for such incentives.

In South Dakota, five of the eight mature firms modeled rank in the top 10 for lowest tax burdens – corporate headquarters, technology centers, data centers, capital-intensive manufacturing and labor-intensive manufacturing.

The Milken Institute’s Best-Performing Cities index tracks the economic performance of approximately 400 US metropolitan statistical areas (MSA) split between large and small cities. It uses an outcomes-based set of metrics—including job creation, wage gains, and high-tech GDP growth—to evaluate the performance of these cities relative to one another. Sioux Falls ranked No. 7 in the small city category.

POLICOM analyzes local and state economies, determines if they are growing or declining, identifies what is causing this to happen, and offers ideas and solutions to improve the situation.

From its research and educational programs, community and government leaders discover what is driving their economy and what the community will have to do to enhance the “economic quality of life” for the people living and working in the area.

In their most recent study, POLICOM, ranked Sioux Falls as the 10th out of 384 Metropolitan Statistical Areas for our economic strength in 2021.

The Doing Business North America (DBNA) project annually provides objective measures of the scale and scope of business regulations in 130 cities across 92 states, provinces, and federal districts of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. It uses 111 data indicators spread over six categories to score and rank cities in regard to how easy it is to set up, operate, and shut down a business.

Focusing on city-level regulations, this study provides measurable benchmarks; objective measurements of regulatory conditions publicly-available to researchers and policymakers allowing them to track the improvement or decline in local regulatory conditions, providing context for potential policy reform.

For more information, visit: dbna.asu.edu