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Rapid City, SD Metro Area


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2024 population: 146,897   ( 103,376 from 2020)
Land area: 6247.7 square miles
Population density: 23.5 persons per square mile

2024 Census data
White:117,968 80.31% 4.0%
Black:2,1001.43% 2.5%
Indian:10,8277.37% 6.3%
Asian:2,0751.41% 11.9%
2+ races:5,1333.49% 11.0%
Hispanic:8,7945.99% 27.7%
Total non-White:28,92919.69% 13.0%

2020-2024 ComponentsNumberRate
Births:2,225 12.8
Deaths:1,94011.1
Net Migration: 4192.4
Net Immigration: 250.1
Change in White population:4,488 3.2
Change in Non-White pop.:3,330 2.4



Historical Presidential Election Results for Rapid City, SD Metro Area



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YearTurnout WinnerRunner-Up OtherTotal Votes Diff
(US)
PUSV
2024 64% Donald Trump (R) 45,896 64.4% Kamala Harris (D) 23,472 32.9% 1,884 [+] 2.6% 71,252 15 0.05%
2020 66% Donald Trump* (R) 44,938 63.1% Joe Biden (D) 23,891 33.6% 2,359 [+] 3.3% 71,188 16 0.04%
2016 58% Donald Trump (R) 38,245 64.4% Hillary Clinton (D) 16,297 27.5% 4,822 [+] 8.1% 59,364 19 0.04%
2012 57% Mitt Romney (R) 35,798 64.8% Barack Obama* (D) 18,053 32.7% 1,430 [+] 2.6% 55,281 18 0.04%
2008 63% John McCain (R) 35,118 60.7% Barack Obama (D) 21,553 37.2% 1,215 [+] 2.1% 57,886 15 0.04%
2004 65% George W. Bush* (R) 38,323 67.9% John Kerry (D) 17,154 30.4% 995 [+] 1.8% 56,472 17 0.05%
2000 56% George W. Bush (R) 31,566 68.7% Albert Gore, Jr. (D) 13,390 29.2% 967 [+] 2.1% 45,923 21 0.04%
1996 57% Robert Dole (R) 24,277 54.3% Bill Clinton* (D) 15,744 35.2% 4,671 [+] 10.5% 44,692 14 0.05%
1992 64% George Bush* (R) 22,776 47.7% Bill Clinton (D) 13,800 28.9% 11,168 [+] 23.4% 47,744 10 0.05%
1988 57% George Bush (R) 24,699 61.4% Michael Dukakis (D) 15,280 38.0% 251 [+] 0.6% 40,230 8 0.04%
1984 58% Ronald Reagan* (R) 27,855 72.5% Walter Mondale (D) 10,317 26.8% 258 0.7% 38,430 14 0.04%
1980 57% Ronald Reagan (R) 24,340 68.1% Jimmy Carter* (D) 8,842 24.7% 2,563 [+] 7.2% 35,745 17 0.04%
1976 50% Gerald Ford* (R) 16,448 56.0% Jimmy Carter (D) 12,536 42.7% 405 [+] 1.4% 29,389 8 0.04%
1972 50% Richard Nixon* (R) 17,070 62.3% George McGovern (D) 10,225 37.3% 111 [+] 0.4% 27,406 2 0.04%
1968 49% Richard Nixon (R) 12,063 53.8% Hubert Humphrey (D) 8,825 39.4% 1,517 [+] 6.8% 22,405 10 0.03%
1964 53% Lyndon Johnson* (D) 12,204 52.4% Barry Goldwater (R) 11,066 47.6% 0 0.0% 23,270 9 0.03%
1960 55% Richard Nixon (R) 14,008 59.8% John Kennedy (D) 9,401 40.2% 0 0.0% 23,409 10 0.03%
1956 52% Dwight Eisenhower* (R) 13,422 65.8% Adlai Stevenson (D) 6,990 34.2% 0 0.0% 20,412 8 0.03%
1952 59% Dwight Eisenhower (R) 14,138 70.9% Adlai Stevenson (D) 5,804 29.1% 0 0.0% 19,942 16 0.03%
1948 53% Thomas Dewey (R) 8,445 55.6% Harry Truman* (D) 6,610 43.5% 127 [+] 0.8% 15,182 11 0.03%
1944 45% Thomas Dewey (R) 7,158 60.5% Franklin Roosevelt* (D) 4,681 39.5% 0 0.0% 11,839 15 0.02%
1940 68% Wendell Willkie (R) 9,163 57.4% Franklin Roosevelt* (D) 6,809 42.6% 0 0.0% 15,972 13 0.03%
1936 73% Franklin Roosevelt* (D) 8,095 52.4% Alf Landon (R) 6,664 43.2% 677 [+] 4.4% 15,436 7 0.03%
1932 66% Franklin Roosevelt (D) 7,865 58.3% Herbert Hoover* (R) 5,373 39.9% 245 [+] 1.8% 13,483 0 0.03%
1928 61% Herbert Hoover (R) 7,490 66.6% Al Smith (D) 3,707 33.0% 47 [+] 0.4% 11,244 8 0.03%
1924 53% Calvin Coolidge (R) 5,207 61.1% Robert LaFollette (Prog) 1,681 19.7% 1,640 [+] 19.2% 8,528 7 0.03%
1920 53% Warren Harding (R) 4,462 61.6% James Cox (D) 2,099 29.0% 682 [+] 9.4% 7,243 1 0.03%
1916 32% Woodrow Wilson* (D) 2,563 53.0% Charles Evans Hughes (R) 1,966 40.7% 307 [+] 6.3% 4,836 -5 0.03%
1912 29% Theodore Roosevelt (Prog) 2,136 46.3% Woodrow Wilson (D) 2,110 45.7% 372 [+] 8.1% 4,618 -23 0.03%
1908 36% William Taft (R) 2,655 55.0% William J. Bryan (D) 1,952 40.4% 219 [+] 4.5% 4,826 3 0.03%
1904 27% Theodore Roosevelt (R) 1,880 67.7% Alton Parker (D) 660 23.8% 238 [+] 8.6% 2,778 11 0.02%
1900 42% William McKinley* (R) 1,448 51.3% William J. Bryan (D) 1,349 47.8% 25 [+] 0.9% 2,822 0 0.02%
* incumbent         PSV: percent of state vote