Photo: Jared Winkler · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Kellerton works elsewhere
Home is the office for 2% of workers; Iowa has 11%. Employers in Kellerton report 18 jobs, and 100 of its residents work somewhere. Only 1% work in Kellerton; the top destination outside it is Mount Ayr (22%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Kellerton quiets down on a workday
On a workday 99 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 17 people come in from elsewhere.
About 160 people are in Kellerton on a workday afternoon, 34% 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 Kellerton: the destinations
Where Kellerton clocks in
22% of workers
5% 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.
Kellerton works in goods: 83% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kellerton, 2013 → 2023: 13 → 18. 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 Kellerton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Kellerton takes about 34 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kellerton workers work from home, vs 11% across Iowa. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 127 commuters (the 2% 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 Kellerton’s workers travel
About 44% 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 Kellerton: questions
What is the median household income in Kellerton?
$46,875 (±$21,367) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $75,059 across Iowa and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kellerton?
15.4%, against 11.1% across Iowa and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kellerton?
34 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Iowa and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kellerton work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mount Ayr (22%, 10 mi), Des Moines (9%, 64 mi), Diagonal (5%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Kellerton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kellerton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kellerton
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.