Photo: Mostly Iowa Edits · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Conroy commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
35 jobs are based in Conroy; 122 of its residents have a job. Hardly any stay in Conroy for work; outside it, Cedar Rapids is the main destination (16%, 23 miles). Home is the office for 0% of workers (Iowa 11%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Conroy
On a workday 122 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 35 people come in from elsewhere.
About 110 people are in Conroy on a workday afternoon, 44% 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.
The towns that employ Conroy’s residents
Where Conroy clocks in
16% of workers
11% 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.
80% of the jobs in Conroy pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Conroy, 2013 → 2023: 79 → 35. 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 Conroy’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Conroy: about 26 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Conroy workers work from home, vs 11% across Iowa. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 112 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.
The distance from Conroy to work
About 23% 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 Conroy: questions
What is the poverty rate in Conroy?
4.0%, against 11.1% across Iowa and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Conroy?
26 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Iowa and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Conroy work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cedar Rapids (16%, 23 mi), Iowa City (13%, 25 mi), Williamsburg (11%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Conroy 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 Conroy, from the people who make the trip.
More of Conroy
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.