With 0.0 jobs for every working resident, most of Bentley works elsewhere
Hardly any stay in Bentley for work; outside it, Omaha is the main destination (28%, 24 miles). Employers in Bentley report 1 jobs, and 57 of its residents work somewhere. Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers (Iowa 11%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Bentley for work, and who comes in
On a workday 57 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 1 people come in from elsewhere.
About 130 people are in Bentley on a workday afternoon, 30% 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.
Commuting out of Bentley: the destinations
Where Bentley clocks in
28% of workers
16% of workers
12% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Bentley
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Bentley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Bentley
of Bentley workers work from home, vs 11% across Iowa. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 96 commuters (the 0% 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.
How far Bentley goes to work
About 20% 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 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.
- Two counts of out-of-state work. The Census survey asks workers where they work: 0% of Bentley workers work outside Iowa. The job records count 30% at employers in other states. The records use the address the employer reports and skip the self-employed, so the two can differ.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Bentley: questions
What is the poverty rate in Bentley?
6.3%, against 11.1% across Iowa and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Bentley work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Omaha (28%, 24 mi), Underwood (16%, 3 mi), Council Bluffs (12%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bentley without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bentley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bentley
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.