Category: Accolades

In order to determine the best- and worst-run cities in America, WalletHub compared 150 of the most populated cities across six key categories: 1) Financial Stability, 2) Education, 3) Health, 4) Safety, 5) Economy and 6) Infrastructure & Pollution. They evaluated these dimensions using 38 relevant metrics…ranking Sioux Falls No. 11.

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 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.

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