Most of Moville commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Moville has 340 jobs for 724 working residents. The two grades for Moville are B+ for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Only 7% work in Moville itself; outside it, Sioux City draws the most (40%, 16 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Moville, in a few figures
Inside Moville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Moville is better than 74% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Moville’s grade up (3.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 34% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (2.4%) is left out: Moville’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, Moville could be anywhere from B to A−.
The towns that employ Moville’s residents
Where Moville clocks in
40% of workers
4% 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 and out of Moville on a workday
On a workday 675 residents head out to work, 49 work right here, and 291 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Moville on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
What Moville’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Moville, 2013 → 2023: 323 → 340. 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 Moville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 24 minutes in Moville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Moville workers work from home, vs 11% across Iowa. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 841 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.
The distance from Moville to work
About 19% 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.
Moville is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Moville is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 4.4% across Iowa.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 906 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 under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 3.2% of Moville households have no vehicle (Iowa 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Moville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300, Moville comes 935th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 138 | Van Meter IA | 1,978 | $135K | 2.6% | 1.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 145 | Walford IA | 1,359 | $129K | 1.1% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 201 | Granger IA | 2,179 | $112K | 3.4% | 2.1% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 933 | Milan OH | 1,344 | $98K | 7.1% | 1.5% | 3% | B+ |
| 934 | Captains Cove VA | 1,542 | $110K | 0.0% | 1.5% | 1% | B+ |
| 935 | Moville IA | 1,708 | $96K | 3.4% | 2.4% | 7% | B+ |
| 936 | Mohican Township OH | 2,088 | $83K | 8.6% | 0.6% | 6% | B+ |
| 937 | Oconto Falls WI | 1,291 | $92K | 3.1% | 0.3% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | 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 Moville, the top three, the last and three more from Iowa.
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 Moville: questions
What is the median household income in Moville?
$96,016 (±$7,994) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $75,059 across Iowa and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Moville?
3.4%, against 11.1% across Iowa and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Moville?
24 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Iowa and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Moville work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sioux City (40%, 16 mi), South Sioux City (4%, 18 mi), Le Mars (4%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Moville walkable?
Moville is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 9.3 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Moville without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Moville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Moville
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.