Photo: Crazysixdownunder · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.0 jobs for every working resident, most of Grandview works elsewhere
For 3% of workers, the job is at home, against 11% across Iowa. Employers in Grandview report 5 jobs, and 212 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any stay in Grandview for work; outside it, Muscatine is the main destination (27%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Grandview
Grandview is a place people come home to
There are 5 jobs based in Grandview, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Grandview has about 210 people in it, 50% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Grandview workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 30 minutes each way, against 20 across Iowa. Over a year that’s about 230 hours of commuting, 77 more than the state’s typical 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 212 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How a workday changes Grandview
On a workday 212 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 5 people come in from elsewhere.
About 210 people are in Grandview on a workday afternoon, 50% 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.
About 30 minutes each way for Grandview’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Grandview workers work from home, vs 11% across Iowa. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 167 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.
Commuting out of Grandview: the destinations
Where Grandview clocks in
27% of workers
6% 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.
Most jobs in Grandview are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Grandview, 2013 → 2023: 8 → 5. 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 Grandview’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Grandview
About 16% 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 Grandview: questions
What is the median household income in Grandview?
$57,625 (±$17,469) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $75,059 across Iowa and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Grandview?
9.6%, against 11.1% across Iowa and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Grandview?
30 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Iowa and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Grandview work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Muscatine (27%, 12 mi), Davenport (6%, 36 mi), Wapello (5%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Grandview 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 Grandview, from the people who make the trip.
More of Grandview
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.