Facts & Data

An Exceptional Midwest Community

Recognized as the best state for entrepreneurs and low business costs, South Dakota offers companies an advantageous business environment.

From 2000-2006, the Brookings region* boasts a 4.6% job growth rate. Shovel ready industrial sites offer the location and transportation access your business needs to succeed. With an extraordinary quality of life, an outstanding school system, excellent healthcare resources, and one of the nation’s lowest crime rates, Brookings is an exceptional community in which to grow your business or family.

#1 State Environment for Entrepreneurs
Small Business Survival Foundation

#1 Lowest Cost State for Doing Business
Milken Institute Index

#1 Most Digital State
Highest number of Internet-connected students, best student to computer ratio and 100% of public schools have high-speed broadband access.
SD Governor’s Office of Economic Development

#2 Safest State
Lowest rate in the nation for murder and motor vehicle theft
Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2005

#3 Corporate Business Environment
Polina Corporate Real Estate

#5 in Quality of Life among Small Midwest Cities, #21 Nationally
BizJournals.com (a division of American City Business Journals), August 2006

*The Brookings Region is comprised of Brookings, Deuel, Hamiln, Kingsbury, Lake, Moody, and Lincoln (MN) counties.