Photo: Farragutful · CC BY-SA 4.0Camanche has lower unemployment (0.3%) than 98% of U.S. towns
4% of workers work from home (Iowa 11%). Jobs and income earn Camanche B; getting around on foot earns it C+. About one in seven stay in Camanche for work; outside it, Clinton is the main destination (34%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Camanche apart on work
Camanche and Clinton trade workers both ways
Clinton is the top workplace for Camanche residents (34%) and also where the most people who work in Camanche come from (30% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Short distances, slow trips
Half of Camanche’s working residents have a job less than 7 miles away, yet the average commute still takes 22 minutes, longer than the Iowa average of 20. Time on the road ↓
Camanche makes and builds things
38% of the jobs based in Camanche are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Camanche residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 29%. 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.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Camanche
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Camanche is better than 60% of U.S. towns, #55 of 140 in Iowa. Unemployment holds Camanche’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($64,153, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Camanche could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
The places Camanche commutes to
Where Camanche clocks in
34% of workers
9% of workers
4% 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.
A commute of about 22 minutes in Camanche
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Camanche workers work from home, vs 11% across Iowa. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,184 commuters (the 4% 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.
Camanche works in goods: 38% of its jobs
1,796 jobs are based in Camanche.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Camanche, 2013 → 2023: 1,845 → 1,796. 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 Camanche’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who works in Camanche, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 1,828 residents head out to work, 311 work right here, and 1,485 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.84 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where in the region Camanche works
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.
Few in Camanche walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Camanche is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns, #130 of 140 in Iowa. Both inputs place Camanche near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,281 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 6.5% of Camanche households have no vehicle (Iowa 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Camanche’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,938 U.S. towns of 3,200 to 6,200, Camanche comes 1,694th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 150 | Solon IA | 3,345 | $113K | 3.2% | 0.9% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 203 | Asbury IA | 6,035 | $125K | 3.2% | 1.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 232 | Huxley IA | 4,715 | $112K | 4.5% | 1.3% | 8% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,692 | Statham GA | 3,350 | $74K | 13.0% | 2.7% | 2% | B |
| 1,693 | West Liberty IA | 3,717 | $69K | 11.3% | 2.0% | 27% | B |
| 1,694 | Camanche IA | 4,557 | $64K | 11.5% | 0.3% | 15% | B |
| 1,695 | Sabattus ME | 5,397 | $59K | 8.8% | 1.7% | 6% | B |
| 1,696 | Hamlin Township MI | 3,238 | $92K | 1.9% | 10.0% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,938 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Camanche, the top three, the last and three more from Iowa.
Bordering towns draw 36% of Camanche’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Clinton. Darker towns draw more of Camanche’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Camanche: questions
What is the median household income in Camanche?
$64,153 (±$12,501) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $75,059 across Iowa and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Camanche?
11.5%, against 11.1% across Iowa and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Camanche?
22 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Iowa and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Camanche work?
15% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Clinton (34%, 4 mi), Davenport (9%, 24 mi), DeWitt (4%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Camanche walkable?
Camanche is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Camanche without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Camanche, from the people who make the trip.
More of Camanche
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.