Photo: Jim Roberts · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Earlville works elsewhere
A typical one-way commute lasts 24 minutes, where Iowa has 20 and the U.S. 26. There are 92 jobs in Earlville for 337 working residents. Only 1% work in Earlville itself; outside it, Dyersville draws the most (18%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Earlville
Earlville and Dyersville trade workers both ways
Dyersville is the top workplace for Earlville residents (18%) and also where the most people who work in Earlville come from (12% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Earlville is a place people come home to
There are 92 jobs based in Earlville, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Earlville has about 460 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 337 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The places Earlville commutes to
Where Earlville clocks in
18% of workers
11% of workers
10% 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.
The daily flow of workers through Earlville
On a workday 333 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 88 people come in from elsewhere.
About 460 people are in Earlville on a workday afternoon, 35% 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 2024, primary jobs.
In Earlville, 32% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Earlville, 2014 → 2024: 189 → 92. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Earlville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Earlville’s commute takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Earlville workers work from home, vs 11% across Iowa. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 451 commuters (the 6% 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 commute from Earlville, by distance
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 2024.
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 2024, 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 Earlville: questions
What is the median household income in Earlville?
$76,250 (±$15,627) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $75,059 across Iowa and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Earlville?
8.3%, against 11.1% across Iowa and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Earlville?
24 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Iowa and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Earlville work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dyersville (18%, 8 mi), Dubuque (11%, 29 mi), Manchester (10%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Earlville without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Earlville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Earlville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.