Upper Iowa River Bridge · Photo: Kevin Schuchmann · CC BY-SA 3.0New Albin has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
4% of workers work from home, where Iowa as a whole has 11%. Employers in New Albin report 94 jobs for 201 working residents. Only 2% stay in New Albin for work; outside it, Waukon is the main destination (17%, 18 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where New Albin stands out on work
How far New Albin goes to work
About 31% 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.
The daily commute in and out of New Albin
On a workday 196 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 89 people come in from elsewhere.
About 320 people are in New Albin on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
Out of New Albin to work: where people go
Where New Albin clocks in
9% of workers
7% 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.
What New Albin’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in New Albin, 2013 → 2023: 75 → 94. 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 New Albin’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 24 minutes in New Albin
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of New Albin workers work from home, vs 11% across Iowa. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 221 commuters (the 4% 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.
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 New Albin: questions
What is the median household income in New Albin?
$61,953 (±$2,473) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $75,059 across Iowa and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in New Albin?
3.5%, against 11.1% across Iowa and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from New Albin?
24 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Iowa and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in New Albin work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Waukon (17%, 18 mi), Decorah (9%, 28 mi), Lansing (7%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around New Albin without a car?
1% 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 New Albin, from the people who make the trip.
More of New Albin
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.