Photo: Jared Winkler · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Smithland works elsewhere
4% of workers work from home; Iowa has 11%. 27 jobs are based in Smithland, and 80 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Smithland itself; outside it, Sioux City draws the most (39%, 30 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Smithland by day and by night
On a workday 80 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 27 people come in from elsewhere.
About 130 people are in Smithland on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
The places Smithland commutes to
Where Smithland clocks in
39% of workers
4% 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.
Jobs in Smithland: what the 27 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Smithland, 2013 → 2023: 12 → 27. 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 Smithland’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Smithland: about 35 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Smithland workers work from home, vs 11% across Iowa. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 76 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.
Where in the region Smithland works
About 27% 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 Smithland: questions
What is the median household income in Smithland?
$98,750 (±$52,255) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $75,059 across Iowa and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Smithland?
9.5%, against 11.1% across Iowa and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Smithland?
35 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Iowa and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Smithland work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sioux City (39%, 30 mi), Des Moines (5%, 128 mi), Sloan (4%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Smithland 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 Smithland, from the people who make the trip.
More of Smithland
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.