Photo: Don Graham on Flickr · CC BY-SA 2.0Doon has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Doon has 118 jobs; 272 of its residents have a job. Only 2% work in Doon itself; outside it, Sioux Falls draws the most (10%, 31 miles). For 3% of workers, the job is at home; Iowa has 11%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Doon in brief
Fewer jobs are based in Doon than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Doon fell from 333 in 2013 to 118 in 2023, −65%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Doon’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Doon is Sioux Falls, SD, 31 miles away as the crow flies. 10% of working residents (28) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Commutes from Doon are quick
The average trip to work takes 15 minutes, against 20 across Iowa. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Iowa worker. Time on the road ↓
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; with 272 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
A place that makes things: 29% of Doon’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Doon, 2013 → 2023: 333 → 118. 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 Doon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Doon
About 17% 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.
The trip to work from Doon: about 15 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Doon workers work from home, vs 11% across Iowa. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 277 commuters (the 3% 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.
Doon by day and by night
On a workday 267 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 113 people come in from elsewhere.
About 490 people are in Doon on a workday afternoon, 24% 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.
Out of Doon to work: where people go
Where Doon clocks in
Lines 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 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 Doon: questions
What is the median household income in Doon?
$63,750 (±$12,105) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $75,059 across Iowa and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Doon?
6.0%, against 11.1% across Iowa and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Doon?
15 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Iowa and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Doon work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sioux Falls (10%, 31 mi), Inwood (9%, 10 mi), Rock Valley (8%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Doon without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Doon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Doon
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.