Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Parnell works elsewhere
Parnell has 12 jobs, against 97 working residents. Hardly any stay in Parnell for work; outside it, Iowa City is the main destination (24%, 25 miles). Home is the office for 2% of workers, next to 11% for Iowa as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
In and out of Parnell on a workday
On a workday 97 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 12 people come in from elsewhere.
About 110 people are in Parnell on a workday afternoon, 45% 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.
Commuting out of Parnell: the destinations
Where Parnell clocks in
18% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 67% of the jobs in Parnell
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Parnell, 2013 → 2023: 30 → 12. 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 Parnell’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Parnell: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Parnell workers work from home, vs 11% across Iowa. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 181 commuters (the 2% 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.
Half of Parnell commutes less than 23 miles
About 15% 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 Parnell: questions
What is the median household income in Parnell?
$70,893 (±$16,000) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $75,059 across Iowa and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Parnell?
13.2%, against 11.1% across Iowa and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Parnell?
24 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Iowa and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Parnell work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Iowa City (24%, 25 mi), Williamsburg (18%, 6 mi), Cedar Rapids (6%, 31 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Parnell without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Parnell, from the people who make the trip.
More of Parnell
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.