(South Dakota News Watch) – Melissa Avelino is a data journalism student at Augustana University. In this series, she looks at the changing face of South Dakota using U.S. Census Data.
South Dakota’s only two formal metro areas are now home to roughly half the state’s population, according to the latest U.S Census data.
Over the past few decades, Rapid City and Sioux Falls have ballooned into burgeoning population centers drawing newcomers from around South Dakota and elsewhere who want to move there and settle down…