Maquoketa Company-Clinton Machine Company Administration Building · Photo: Jim Roberts · CC BY-SA 4.0Jobs and earnings in Dana, and the trip to work
Working from home is the commute for 32% of workers; Iowa has 11%. Hardly any work in Dana itself; outside it, Jefferson draws the most (29%, 10 miles). The trip to work takes 18 minutes on average, where Iowa has 20 and the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Dana, and who commutes in
On a workday 7 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 10 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 (1.43 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.
Out of Dana to work: where people go
Where Dana clocks in
29% of workers
14% 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.
100% of the jobs in Dana pay over $3,333 a month
10 jobs are based in Dana.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dana, 2013 → 2023: 13 → 10. 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 Dana’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Dana: about 18 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dana workers work from home, vs 11% across Iowa. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 13 commuters (the 32% 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 Dana’s workers travel
About 33% 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 Dana: questions
What is the median household income in Dana?
$81,250 (±$67,377) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $75,059 across Iowa and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dana?
7.1%, against 11.1% across Iowa and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dana?
18 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Iowa and 26 nationally. 32% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dana work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jefferson (29%, 10 mi), Paton (14%, 4 mi), Atlantic (14%, 64 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Dana without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 17% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dana, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dana
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.