Photo: Jared Winkler · CC BY-SA 4.0Jobs and the daily commute in Carbon
Home is the office for 0% of workers, where Iowa as a whole has 11%. Hardly any work in Carbon itself; outside it, Creston draws the most (12%, 24 miles). Carbon has 26 working residents in the Census job records, and no jobs of its own there.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Carbon by day and by night
On a workday 26 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 0 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7 people are in Carbon on a workday afternoon, 79% fewer than live here.
0.00 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 2023, primary jobs.
Where Carbon goes to work
Where Carbon clocks in
12% of workers
8% 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.
Working from home in Carbon
of Carbon workers work from home, vs 11% across Iowa. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 13 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 Carbon’s workers travel
About 46% 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.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Carbon: questions
What is the median household income in Carbon?
$48,750 (±$37,645) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $75,059 across Iowa and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Carbon?
30.4%, against 11.1% across Iowa and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Carbon work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Creston (12%, 24 mi), Des Moines (12%, 73 mi), Lenox (8%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Carbon without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Carbon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Carbon
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.