Photo: Pete unseth · CC BY-SA 4.0There are 2.7 jobs in Mona for every working resident, and 45 people commute in
Employers in Mona report 46 jobs, and 17 of its residents work somewhere. Only 6% stay in Mona for work; outside it, St. Ansgar is the main destination (29%, 8 miles). Working from home is the commute for 54% of workers (Iowa 11%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Mona on a workday afternoon
On a workday 16 residents head out to work and 1 work right here.
About 50 people are in Mona on a workday afternoon, 138% 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 2023, primary jobs.
Who travels to work in Mona, and from where
Where Mona clocks in
29% of workers
24% 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.
Mona makes things: 100% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mona, 2013 → 2023: 39 → 46. 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 Mona’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Mona
of Mona workers work from home, vs 11% across Iowa. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 6 commuters (the 54% 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.
The distance from Mona to work
About 18% 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 Mona: questions
What is the poverty rate in Mona?
0.0%, against 11.1% across Iowa and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Mona work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are St. Ansgar (29%, 8 mi), Osage (24%, 16 mi), Stacyville (6%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Mona 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 Mona, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mona
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.