Most of Aurelia commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Working from home is the commute for 2% of workers, where Iowa as a whole has 11%. 238 jobs are based in Aurelia, and 496 of its residents work somewhere. Only 6% stay in Aurelia for work; outside it, Cherokee is the main destination (18%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Aurelia
Aurelia and Cherokee trade workers both ways
Cherokee is the top workplace for Aurelia residents (18%) and also where the most people who work in Aurelia come from (12% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
31% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Aurelia than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Aurelia fell from 327 in 2013 to 238 in 2023, −27%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 496 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Aurelia’s working residents head each day
Where Aurelia clocks in
18% of workers
17% of workers
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Near or far: the trip to work from Aurelia
About 31% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What Aurelia’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Aurelia, 2013 → 2023: 327 → 238. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Aurelia’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of Aurelia, and who commutes in
On a workday 468 residents head out to work, 28 work right here, and 210 people come in from elsewhere.
About 680 people are in Aurelia on a workday afternoon, 28% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Aurelia’s commute takes about 18 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Aurelia workers work from home, vs 11% across Iowa. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 489 commuters (the 2% who work from home are left out). Across Iowa: 86% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Aurelia: questions
What is the median household income in Aurelia?
$71,500 (±$4,516) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $75,059 across Iowa and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Aurelia?
4.5%, against 11.1% across Iowa and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Aurelia?
18 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Iowa and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Aurelia work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cherokee (18%, 6 mi), Storm Lake (17%, 13 mi), Sioux City (5%, 51 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Aurelia without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Aurelia, from the people who make the trip.
More of Aurelia
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.