Photo: Billwhittaker (Uploads) · CC BY-SA 3.0Jobs and earnings in Blairsburg, and the trip to work
Working residents average 21 minutes each way, next to 20 for Iowa and 26 for the U.S. Only 1% work in Blairsburg; the top destination outside it is Webster City (26%, 9 miles). 46 jobs are based in Blairsburg, against 73 working residents.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Blairsburg, and who commutes in
On a workday 72 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 45 people come in from elsewhere.
About 150 people are in Blairsburg on a workday afternoon, 15% fewer than live here.
0.63 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where Blairsburg goes to work
Where Blairsburg clocks in
12% of workers
7% 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.
What Blairsburg’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Blairsburg, 2014 → 2024: 80 → 46. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Blairsburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Blairsburg takes about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Blairsburg workers work from home, vs 11% across Iowa. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 59 commuters (the 13% 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.
The distance from Blairsburg to work
About 26% 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 2024.
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 2024, 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 Blairsburg: questions
What is the median household income in Blairsburg?
$81,250 (±$35,880) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $75,059 across Iowa and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Blairsburg?
13.7%, against 11.1% across Iowa and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Blairsburg?
21 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Iowa and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Blairsburg work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Webster City (26%, 9 mi), Fort Dodge (12%, 27 mi), Ames (7%, 31 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Blairsburg 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 Blairsburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Blairsburg
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.