Photo: Jared Winkler · CC BY-SA 4.0Redding has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Working from home is the commute for 39% of workers, against 11% across Iowa. Redding has 4 jobs, against 26 working residents. Hardly any stay in Redding for work; outside it, Mount Ayr is the main destination (31%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Redding, and who commutes in
On a workday 26 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 4 people come in from elsewhere.
About 41 people are in Redding on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
Where Redding goes to work
Where Redding clocks in
31% of workers
8% 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 Redding’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Redding, 2013 → 2023: 3 → 4. 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 Redding’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Redding
of Redding workers work from home, vs 11% across Iowa. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 11 commuters (the 39% 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 many miles Redding commutes
About 42% 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 Redding: questions
What is the median household income in Redding?
$73,750 (±$47,118) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $75,059 across Iowa and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Redding?
7.8%, against 11.1% across Iowa and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Redding work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mount Ayr (31%, 11 mi), Des Moines (15%, 78 mi), West Des Moines (8%, 72 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Redding 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 Redding, from the people who make the trip.
More of Redding
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.