Least Stressed Cities in America – Sioux Falls No. 3

To determine the cities where Americans cope best, WalletHub compared 182 cities across 42 key metrics. The data set ranges from how vulnerable the state is to COVID-19 to average weekly work hours to divorce and suicide rates.

Sioux Falls ranked as the third least stressed city. Regional communities ranking alongside Sioux Falls include Lincoln, Fargo and Bismarck.

Best Cities to Start a Career – Sioux Falls No. 2

Zippia looked at over 200 cities and ranked them on median income, average rent and unemployment using data from the most recent Census ACS.

The Best Cities to Start a Career according to Zippia’s research are:

  1. Fargo, North Dakota
  2. Sioux Falls, South Dakota
  3. Salt Lake City, Utah
  4. Lincoln, Nebraska
  5. Madison, Wisconsin
  6. Raleigh, North Carolina
  7. Charleston, South Carolina
  8. Boise City, Idaho
  9. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
  10. Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee

Sioux Falls Ranks at Top of Hottest U.S. Job Markets

Sioux Falls is among the top ranked hottest job markets in the U.S. according to the Wall Street Journal. WSJ worked with Moody’s Analytics to assess the labor market of the country’s 381 metro areas based on five metrics:

  • Unemployment Rate
  • Labor-force Participation Rate
  • Job Growth
  • Labor-force Growth
  • Wage Growth

Those rankings were averaged to determine the hottest labor markets for metro areas over 1 million people, and for those under one million people.

Sioux Falls ranked No. 5 among communities with less than one million residents.

Source: The Wall Street Journal

Sioux Falls one of ZipRecruiter’s 10 Hottest Job Markets for 2020

ZipRecruiter® released its annual list of the 10 Hottest Job Markets for 2020 based on job market size, job market growth, median annual wage, and the average number of job openings per job seeker. ZipRecruiter then averaged the percentile rankings to compare overall job market hotness on a 100-point scale. Sioux Falls ranked No. 3.

The top 10 include:

  1. Fargo, ND
  2. Boston, MA
  3. Sioux Falls, SD
  4. Providence, RI
  5. Portland, ME
  6. San Francisco, CA
  7. Washington, DC
  8. Philadelphia, PA
  9. Bismarck, ND
  10. New York, NY