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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
- 3,58857706in Ellsworth Afb · 2,787 residents61.88
- 3,65557702in Rapid City · 35,595 residents61.77
- 4,49757745in Hill City · 1,894 residents60.48
- 4,69757751in Keystone · 893 residents60.22
- 5,93957718in Black Hawk · 7,937 residents58.57
- 6,09357769in Piedmont · 4,029 residents58.37
- 6,13457730in Custer · 5,596 residents58.33
- 6,62657773in Pringle · 206 residents57.73
- 6,87157792in White Owl · 114 residents57.42
- 7,04457787in Union Center · 487 residents57.23
- 7,19857741in Fort Meade · 141 residents57.09
- 8,98957767in Owanka · 234 residents55.39
- 10,16957719in Box Elder · 12,221 residents54.42
- 10,37757758in Mud Butte · 35 residents54.26
- 10,51257738in Fairburn · 356 residents54.14
- 10,62957761in New Underwood · 1,180 residents54.06
- 10,91357703in Rapid City · 18,013 residents53.84
- 11,06957785in Sturgis · 10,874 residents53.72
- 11,22857744in Hermosa · 2,421 residents53.60
- 11,40757791in Wasta · 97 residents53.48
- 11,44557790in Wall · 1,147 residents53.45
- 13,08557788in Vale · 598 residents52.27
- 14,41057775in Quinn · 191 residents51.31
- 17,36457725in Caputa · 130 residents49.22
- 18,37857701in Rapid City · 45,795 residents48.44
- 23,82357780in Scenic · 70 residents43.58
- 26,92457748in Howes · 369 residents39.74
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.