Sioux Falls SD has been in any of the Number 1-5 slots on the list of Top 25 Best Small Cities for Jobs and Business in America for several years. It is a fast-growing community that is attracting large numbers of incoming residents, along with new businesses that are creating new jobs.

The Sioux Falls Development Corporation (SFDC) is a well organized and proactive firm that is bring new business and jobs to the Greater Sioux Falls area and encouraging small businesses to expand.

Incentives include the fact there is no State Tax, Corporate Income Tax, State Personal Income Tax, Personal Property Tax, Inheritance Tax, or Inventory Tax.

Further, the South Dakota Technology Business Center is a Sioux Falls technology business incubator that provides new business startups with development guidance and inexpensive work space for tech businesses to use.

In addition, SFDC has created eight large Industrial Parks in Sioux Falls to house current and new businesses as well.

The Top 10 Largest Employers in Sioux Falls include the industries of Healthcare, Financial Products and Services, Food, Retail, and other services.

1. Sanford Health
2. Avera Health
3. Wells Fargo – Financial
4. Citigroup - Financial
5. John Morrell & Company - Foods
6. Sioux Falls School District 49-5
7. HyVee Food Stores
8. WalMart/Sam's Club – Retail & Food
9. City of Sioux Falls – Government
10. First PREMIER Bank/PREMIER Bankcard
11. Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society

1. Financial Products & Services - Sales and service positions at numerous local banks.
2. Computer Software Engineers, Applications
3. Network Systems and Data Communications Analysts
4. Registered Nurses (RNs)
5. Business and Operations Managers
6. Bill/Account Collectors
7. Industrial & Indsutrial Machinery Engineers
8. Computer Software Engineers, Systems Software
9. Dental Hygienists & Medical Assistants
10. Customer Service Representatives

Sioux Falls SD is the largest and best major medical center from Denver, Colorado to Rochester, Minnesota. This creates a market for Medical Tourism as well as for excellent medical and heath services.

Sioux Falls is headquarters for severe acute-care and other hospitals: Avera McKennan Hospital, Sanford USD Medical Center, Veteran's Memorial Hospital, Children's Care Hospital, Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota, and Select Specialty Hospital.

Sioux Falls health community comprises hospitals, clinics, and private practices that require new health professionals every year in order to care for a growing population in four different states that come together at Sioux Falls,

The prestigious regional facility, the Sanford School of Medicine at The University of SD is a research and teaching hospital that raises the standards in all local hospitals through continuous improvement and the sharing of best practices among 500+ physicians and their large staffs in this regional healthcare mecca.

• Augustana College
• Bellvue University in Sioux Falls
• Colorado Technical University
• Globe University of Minnesota in Sioux Falls
• Kilian Community College
• Mount Marty College
• National American University
• Sioux Falls Seminary
• Southeast Technical Insititute
• University of Sioux Falls
• University of South Dakota

Howard Wood Field is the local football and track facility and it seats 10,000 spectators that come to view semi pro and college level sports and championships. Simply named, The Arena is where the Sioux Falls SkyForce basketball team plays. The Sioux Falls Stampede is the local hockey team and The Storm plays indoor football. A baseball stadium houses the Sioux Falls Canaries. Finally, the Dakota Lawdawgs, are a semi-pro football outfit of the North American Football League.

AARP Magazine awarded Sioux Falls the #11 slot inAARP's Healthy City list of 2008. Factors in this accomplishment have well used bike trails, open spaces in 70 parks, especially Falls Park pictured above. Sioux Falls is #1 in the number of hospital beds in the country and enjoys 314 physicians per 100,000 people (US avg. = 223). Importantly, about 95% of local residents have health insurance,associated with better health long-term. Sioux Falls also offers some of the cleanest tap water in the US, according to Forbes.com in 2008.

Organic Gardening magazine awarded the city 5^th place in US cities that work hard to make neighborhoods healthy and sustainable, especially with locally grown food and gardens. Related to this, South Dakota was the only US state to have increasing numbers of home sales during 4^th QTR 2007.

Originally founded by Germans, Irish, and Norwegians, Sioux Falls is now cosmopolitan, with growing groups from Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia, and elsewhere, bringing with them new restaurants and other business ideas. The Multi-Cultural Center of Sioux Falls is quite active their website is provided at www.multi-culturalcenter.org.

The Yankton Sioux people are traditionally from the southeast corner of South Dakota, the location of Sioux Falls and associated Minnehaha County, as well as the Big Sioux River. The four counties making up the Greater Sioux Falls area benefit from the contribuiton of this Native American Nation.

Sioux Falls is named after this nation of Indigenous People and visitors arrive on this site from around the globe. In the 21st century, the Yankton Sioux people maintain a 40,000 acre stretch of land and create related employment openings through the Fort Randall businesses,  Indian Health Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Marty Indian School.