ZIP 57701 vs ZIP 57706

This side-by-side compares ZIP 57701 (Rapid City, SD) and ZIP 57706 (Ellsworth Afb, SD) using the same Census ACS 5-Year table fields for both, no averages swapped in, no national proxies. ZIP 57701 has a population of 43,462 at 237 people per square mile, while ZIP 57706 has 2,903 at 174 per square mile. That difference in population size and density alone reshapes how every other metric should be interpreted, a higher-income ZIP with 1,200 residents behaves very differently from one with 45,000.

On income and education, ZIP 57701 reports a median household income of $56,461 against $57,162 in ZIP 57706, with per-capita income of $33,046 vs $24,521. The share of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher is 28.6% in 57701 and 40.9% in 57706. Poverty rate reads 17.8% vs 1.4%, and unemployment 3.4% vs 0.9% - these four fields alone drive most of the difference in the scorecard grades you will see for each ZIP.

Housing separates these two ZIPs further: median home value sits at $251,200 in 57701 versus - in 57706, with median rent of $961 and $1,738 per month respectively. Homeownership rate is 60.8% vs 0.0%. When reading the comparison table below, focus on paired metrics rather than single winners, a ZIP with lower home values and lower income is not strictly "worse" if rent-to-income ratios and commute times land in the same zone. Every value is pulled from the exact same ACS table so the two columns are genuinely comparable.