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Rapid City, SD metro ZIP codes, ranked by the ZipVitals Score
Every Rapid City, SD metro ZIP code (ZCTA) with a ZipVitals Score, ranked within the metro — descriptive of documented conditions, never a verdict on the people who live there.
Data release 202627 ZIP codes in this ranking
- 3,58757706in Ellsworth Afb · 2,787 residents61.87
- 3,65957702in Rapid City · 35,595 residents61.77
- 4,49857745in Hill City · 1,894 residents60.47
- 4,70057751in Keystone · 893 residents60.21
- 5,93457718in Black Hawk · 7,937 residents58.56
- 6,09457769in Piedmont · 4,029 residents58.37
- 6,13757730in Custer · 5,596 residents58.32
- 6,62757773in Pringle · 206 residents57.72
- 6,88657792in White Owl · 114 residents57.40
- 7,05657787in Union Center · 487 residents57.22
- 7,19757741in Fort Meade · 141 residents57.09
- 9,00357767in Owanka · 234 residents55.38
- 10,16857719in Box Elder · 12,221 residents54.42
- 10,37857758in Mud Butte · 35 residents54.25
- 10,52057738in Fairburn · 356 residents54.14
- 10,64457761in New Underwood · 1,180 residents54.04
- 10,92257703in Rapid City · 18,013 residents53.83
- 11,07257785in Sturgis · 10,874 residents53.71
- 11,24157744in Hermosa · 2,421 residents53.59
- 11,44157791in Wasta · 97 residents53.45
- 11,45857790in Wall · 1,147 residents53.44
- 13,09057788in Vale · 598 residents52.27
- 14,42257775in Quinn · 191 residents51.30
- 17,41957725in Caputa · 130 residents49.17
- 18,37757701in Rapid City · 45,795 residents48.43
- 23,82157780in Scenic · 70 residents43.58
- 26,93157748in Howes · 369 residents39.73
How this ranking works
Ranks are each ZIP code’s position in the full national ZipVitals Score ranking, so the numbers jump — this metro holds 27 of the tens of thousands of scored US ZIP codes — and they never change with the sort direction; the rank a ZIP carries here is the rank it carries everywhere on this site. A ZIP whose data is too thin to score is held out entirely rather than filled from county or metro figures.
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A high score describes favorable documented conditions — never a claim about residents. Where ZIP codes score low, that pattern reflects structural conditions — investment, environment, and access — far more than the choices of the people who live there.