Dating Pool in South Dakota

What the numbers mean for dating in South Dakota

South Dakota's 919,000 residents include an estimated 161,000 women aged 18 to 44, about 0.3% of the national pool. Sioux Falls is the unambiguous center: its metro of roughly 300,000 has grown briskly on the strength of banking, healthcare, and no state income tax, and it holds a disproportionate share of the state's young professionals. Rapid City, near the Black Hills, anchors the west at about 150,000, and the two markets sit 340 miles apart with very little in between.

The state is young, with a median age of 37.7, supported by high birth rates and the youthful age structures of its nine tribal nations. About 33% of women 25 and older hold a bachelor's degree, and around 31% of adult women have never married — early marriage remains the norm outside Sioux Falls. Like most of the rural plains, South Dakota carries a modest male surplus, roughly 102 men per 100 women, concentrated in its agricultural counties.

A national probability from our calculator scales roughly with a state's share of the US population: preferences matching 1% of US women translate to about 1,610 women in South Dakota. State demographics like education and marriage rates shift the real figure up or down.