Photo: Jared Winkler · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Halbur works elsewhere
1% of workers work from home, where Iowa as a whole has 11%. There are 60 jobs in Halbur for 114 working residents. Only 3% stay in Halbur for work; outside it, Carroll is the main destination (28%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Halbur quiets down on a workday
On a workday 111 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 57 people come in from elsewhere.
About 210 people are in Halbur on a workday afternoon, 20% 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.
Commuting out of Halbur: the destinations
Where Halbur clocks in
28% of workers
7% of workers
4% 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.
Jobs in Halbur: what the 60 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Halbur, 2013 → 2023: 73 → 60. 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 Halbur’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 17 minutes from Halbur
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Halbur workers work from home, vs 11% across Iowa. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 167 commuters (the 1% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Halbur
About 24% 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 Halbur: questions
What is the median household income in Halbur?
$84,250 (±$15,204) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $75,059 across Iowa and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Halbur?
2.5%, against 11.1% across Iowa and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Halbur?
17 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Iowa and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Halbur work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Carroll (28%, 7 mi), Breda (7%, 12 mi), Manning (4%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Halbur 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 Halbur, from the people who make the trip.
More of Halbur
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.