Photo: PopePompus · CC BY-SA 4.0A job hub: Kirkville has 3.1 jobs per working resident, and 186 people come in to work
Hardly any stay in Kirkville for work; outside it, Ottumwa is the main destination (27%, 9 miles). There are 186 jobs in Kirkville; 60 of its residents have a job. Home is the office for 0% of workers, next to 11% for Iowa as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Kirkville, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 60 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 290 people are in Kirkville on a workday afternoon, 79% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Commuting in to Kirkville: where workers come from
Where Kirkville clocks in
8% 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.
In Kirkville, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Kirkville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 33 minutes each way for Kirkville’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kirkville workers work from home, vs 11% across Iowa. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 116 commuters (the 0% 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 Kirkville’s workers travel
About 23% 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 Kirkville: questions
What is the median household income in Kirkville?
$58,750 (±$55,272) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $75,059 across Iowa and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kirkville?
8.6%, against 11.1% across Iowa and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kirkville?
33 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Iowa and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kirkville work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ottumwa (27%, 9 mi), Oskaloosa (8%, 13 mi), Albia (3%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Kirkville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kirkville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kirkville
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.