Muscatine draws more than half of Kent Estates’ working residents
The trip to work takes 18 minutes on average, against 20 across Iowa and 26 nationally. Kent Estates grades B+ for jobs and income and B for walkability. Measured by household income, Kent Estates is ahead of 89% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Kent Estates: the figures worth knowing
More than half of Kent Estates works in Muscatine
535 working residents, 55%, have their main job in Muscatine, 3.3 miles away across the town line. That’s far more as work in Kent Estates itself. The commute map ↓
Kent Estates is a place people come home to
There are 43 jobs based in Kent Estates, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Kent Estates has about 920 people in it, 50% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Most Kent Estates residents work close to home
62% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
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 967 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Kent Estates: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Kent Estates is better than 68% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Kent Estates’ grade up ($121,971, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (11.4%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (1.4%) is left out: Kent Estates’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Kent Estates could be anywhere from B− to A.
Where Kent Estates goes to work
Where Kent Estates clocks in
55% 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.
The daily flow of workers through Kent Estates
On a workday 964 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 40 people come in from elsewhere.
About 920 people are in Kent Estates on a workday afternoon, 50% fewer than live here.
0.04 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
How far it is to work from Kent Estates
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 work there is in Kent Estates: 43 jobs
43 jobs are based in Kent Estates.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kent Estates, 2013 → 2023: 23 → 43. 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 Kent Estates’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 18 minutes from Kent Estates
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kent Estates workers work from home, vs 11% across Iowa. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 878 commuters (the 7% 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.
In Kent Estates, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Kent Estates is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.4% across Iowa, on an EPA index of 6.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 947 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 59% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 5.2% of Kent Estates households have no vehicle (Iowa 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Kent Estates’ commuters take a bus or train.
Kent Estates places 1,249th of 5,656 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 142 | Van Meter IA | 1,978 | $135K | 2.6% | 1.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 148 | Walford IA | 1,359 | $129K | 1.1% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 169 | Ely IA | 2,366 | $106K | 2.4% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,247 | Solon Township MI | 1,608 | $97K | 3.9% | 2.1% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,248 | Independence Township PA | 1,483 | $90K | 3.3% | 9.9% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,249 | Kent Estates IA | 1,848 | $122K | 11.4% | 1.4% | <1% | B+ |
| 1,250 | Sheldon TX | 2,208 | $69K | 0.8% | 7.8% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,251 | Reinbeck IA | 1,668 | $87K | 4.4% | 3.4% | 11% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Kent Estates, the top three, the last and three more from Iowa.
Kent Estates and its neighbors: 55% work next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Kent Estates workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kent Estates | – | B+ | B | 18 min | $121,971 |
| Muscatine | 55% | C | A− | 16 min | $58,117 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Muscatine. Darker towns draw more of Kent Estates’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Kent Estates: questions
What is the median household income in Kent Estates?
$121,971 (±$9,802) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $75,059 across Iowa and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kent Estates?
11.4%, against 11.1% across Iowa and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kent Estates?
18 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Iowa and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kent Estates work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Muscatine (55%, 3 mi), Iowa City (6%, 28 mi), Davenport (6%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Kent Estates walkable?
Kent Estates is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Kent Estates without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kent Estates, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kent Estates
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.