Franklin Pearson House · Photo: C.C. Woodburn · Public domainThere are 2.7 jobs in Keosauqua for every working resident, and 784 people commute in
About one in five stay in Keosauqua for work; outside it, Fairfield is the main destination (20%, 19 miles). 841 jobs are based in Keosauqua for 316 working residents. The trip to work takes 18 minutes on average, against 20 across Iowa and 26 nationally.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Keosauqua, in a few figures
Keosauqua is where the jobs are
Keosauqua has 841 jobs, 2.7 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,500 people are in town, 56% more than the 940 who live here. Day and night ↓
Keosauqua makes and builds things
39% of the jobs based in Keosauqua are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Keosauqua residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 27%. The jobs ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Keosauqua than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Keosauqua fell from 1,145 in 2014 to 841 in 2024, −27%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
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 316 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
A workday in Keosauqua: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 259 residents head out to work and 57 work right here.
About 1,500 people are in Keosauqua on a workday afternoon, 56% more than live here.
2.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Goods, not services: 39% of the jobs in Keosauqua
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Keosauqua, 2014 → 2024: 1,145 → 841. 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 Keosauqua’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who travels to work in Keosauqua, and from where
Where Keosauqua clocks in
20% of workers
3% 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.
Each way, about 18 minutes from Keosauqua
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Keosauqua workers work from home, vs 11% across Iowa. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 282 commuters (the 11% 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 Keosauqua goes to work
About 28% 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 Keosauqua: questions
What is the median household income in Keosauqua?
$51,136 (±$8,357) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $75,059 across Iowa and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Keosauqua?
8.8%, against 11.1% across Iowa and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Keosauqua?
18 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Iowa and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Keosauqua work?
18% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fairfield (20%, 19 mi), Mount Pleasant (3%, 27 mi), Ottumwa (3%, 31 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Keosauqua without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Keosauqua, from the people who make the trip.
More of Keosauqua
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.