Photo: Jared Winkler · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Silver City works elsewhere
The trip to work takes 25 minutes on average, where Iowa has 20 and the U.S. 26. Silver City has 14 jobs; 94 of its residents have a job. Only 1% work in Silver City; the top destination outside it is Council Bluffs (27%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Silver City by day and by night
On a workday 93 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 13 people come in from elsewhere.
About 170 people are in Silver City on a workday afternoon, 33% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Silver City: the destinations
Where Silver City clocks in
27% of workers
17% 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.
What Silver City’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Silver City, 2014 → 2024: 14 → 14. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Silver City’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Silver City: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Silver City workers work from home, vs 11% across Iowa. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 197 commuters (the 16% 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 commute from Silver City, by distance
About 25% 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 2024.
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 2024, 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 Silver City: questions
What is the median household income in Silver City?
$67,250 (±$20,021) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $75,059 across Iowa and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Silver City?
19.8%, against 11.1% across Iowa and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Silver City?
25 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Iowa and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Silver City work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Council Bluffs (27%, 14 mi), Omaha (17%, 24 mi), Glenwood (6%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Silver City 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 Silver City, from the people who make the trip.
More of Silver City
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.