Photo: Jared Winkler · CC BY-SA 4.0Shambaugh has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Hardly any work in Shambaugh itself; outside it, Clarinda draws the most (37%, 6 miles). Employers in Shambaugh report 16 jobs, and 63 of its residents work somewhere. Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers; Iowa has 11%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Shambaugh: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 63 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 16 people come in from elsewhere.
About 110 people are in Shambaugh on a workday afternoon, 30% 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 the trip to work from Shambaugh ends
Where Shambaugh clocks in
37% 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.
Goods jobs make up 56% of work in Shambaugh
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Shambaugh, 2013 → 2023: 21 → 16. 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 Shambaugh’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Shambaugh: about 19 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Shambaugh workers work from home, vs 11% across Iowa. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 67 commuters (the 0% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Shambaugh
About 37% 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 Shambaugh: questions
What is the median household income in Shambaugh?
$70,250 (±$18,570) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $75,059 across Iowa and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Shambaugh?
7.1%, against 11.1% across Iowa and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Shambaugh?
19 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Iowa and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Shambaugh work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Clarinda (37%, 6 mi), Shenandoah (6%, 19 mi), Des Moines (5%, 98 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Shambaugh without a car?
0% 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 Shambaugh, from the people who make the trip.
More of Shambaugh
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.