Photo: Bill Whittaker · CC BY-SA 3.0Stone City has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Hardly any work in Stone City itself; outside it, Cedar Rapids draws the most (39%, 20 miles). 36 jobs are based in Stone City, against 109 working residents. For 28% of workers, the job is at home, next to 11% for Iowa as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
In and out of Stone City on a workday
On a workday 108 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 35 people come in from elsewhere.
About 81 people are in Stone City on a workday afternoon, 47% 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.
Where Stone City goes to work
Where Stone City clocks in
39% of workers
7% 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.
Stone City makes things: 83% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Stone City, 2014 → 2024: 65 → 36. 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 Stone City’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Stone City
of Stone City workers work from home, vs 11% across Iowa. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 59 commuters (the 28% 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 Stone City
About 22% 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 Stone City: questions
What is the median household income in Stone City?
$179,167 (±$53,984) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $75,059 across Iowa and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Stone City?
0.0%, against 11.1% across Iowa and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Stone City work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cedar Rapids (39%, 20 mi), Anamosa (7%, 4 mi), Hiawatha (4%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Stone 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 Stone City, from the people who make the trip.
More of Stone 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.