Best Places57752, SD Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood inside ZIP code 57752, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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57752 ranks 28,407th of 33,110 U.S. zip codes on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on short commutes by a wide margin, and thin health care access ranks lowest.

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The best neighborhoods in 57752

Map of the best neighborhoods in the 57752 area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.

57752's strengths and weaknesses

Top 1%Short commutes
Top 1%Low property taxes
Top 3%Quiet
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare 57752 with other zip codes.

Where 57752 ranks high

  • Short commute9.1 minutes each way, better than 99% of zip codes
  • Low property taxBetter than 99% of zip codes
  • QuietBetter than 97% of zip codes
  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 97% of zip codes
  • State infrastructureBetter than 89% of zip codes

Where 57752 ranks low

  • Healthcare accessBetter than only 1% of zip codes
  • Crime safetyBetter than only 1% of zip codes
  • Big-city accessBetter than only 3% of zip codes
  • Health outlookBetter than only 3% of zip codes
  • Tree shadeBetter than only 7% of zip codes

What it costs to buy a home in 57752

A household needs to earn about $26,000 a year to comfortably buy the median 57752 home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $74,087, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$26,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$609
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $109,775 home
Median rent
$621
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$560
Property tax$13
Homeowners insurance$37

Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses 57752's effective rate of 0.14%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.

Renting versus buying

At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 5 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in 57752

57752 runs younger than the country, and households here run larger than average.

Median age
26
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
8%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
4.0
above the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1835%
18 to 3425%
35 to 4916%
50 to 6416%
65 and older8%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for 57752.


Who works in 57752, and how

Work in 57752 centers on education and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and the job base is shrinking.

Work from home
2%
below the national average
Unemployment
2.1%
below the national average
Job growth
−2.6%
/y 2019-2023, slower than the national pace

Largest industries

Education57%
Health care & social16%
Agriculture & forestry8%
Other services6%
Public administration4%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 90%
  • Work from home 2%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 8%

Life in 57752

The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across 57752.


What the weather is like in 57752, month by month

57752 sees roughly 133 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 93 degrees. January highs sit near 38, with lows near 11. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January38°24°11°
April63°45°30°
July93°75°58°
October66°47°32°

Flying in and out of 57752

The nearest airport, Rapid City Regional, is about 60 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Denver International, about 276 miles away.

Nearest airport
RAP
Rapid City Regional, about 60 miles
Airport size
Nonhub
149th-busiest in the US, 32 nonstop destinations
Average drive
85 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around 57752

Schools across 57752 average a D+, better than 8% of zip codes.

Top elementary schools

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Top high schools

Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every 57752 school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


57752 measure by measure

Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare 57752 against the other 33,109 zip codes.


Common questions about living in 57752

Is 57752 a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, 57752 ranks 28,407th of 33,110 zip codes. It scores highest on short commutes, low property taxes, and quiet, and lowest on thin health care access and crime. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is 57752 expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $109,775. The overall cost of living runs about 13% below the national average. Set against a $74,087 median income, cost of living beats 39% of zip codes.

Is 57752 safe?

57752 is safer than 1% of zip codes. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $1,322 per resident a year.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to 57752. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in 57752 represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.

57752 detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for 57752: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in 57752: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of 57752: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in 57752: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

57752 detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.