Most Urban Cities in South Dakota
Densely populated city centers with the largest urban footprints.
How We Score
Each metric is normalized 0-100 across U.S. cities, then weighted and summed. Cities missing any metric are excluded.
Top 12 Most Urban Cities in South Dakota
Ranked by composite score across 2 weighted metrics.
Full Ranking, South Dakota
Top 50 cities. Click any city to see its full profile.
Sioux Falls, SD tops the list with a composite score of 97.4 out of 100, followed by Vermillion and Mission. SD dominates the top 12 with 12 cities, reflecting strong performance across the weighted metrics for most urban.
Rankings combine 2 independent metrics: Density, Population. Cities are weighted to reflect what matters most to most urban, and any city missing one or more metrics is excluded to avoid artificially inflated rankings.