Photo: Paul Sableman · CC BY 2.0Households in Strawberry Point earn less than those in 77% of U.S. towns
About one in ten work in Strawberry Point; the top destination outside it is Edgewood (10%, 7 miles). Poverty touches 11.3% of residents, next to 11.1% for Iowa as a whole. The two grades for Strawberry Point are C− for jobs and income and A− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Strawberry Point, in brief
The four measures behind Strawberry Point’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Strawberry Point is better than 16% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Strawberry Point’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down.
Unemployment (5.1%) is left out: Strawberry Point’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Strawberry Point could be anywhere from D to C.
In Strawberry Point, 40% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
423 jobs are based in Strawberry Point.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Strawberry Point, 2013 → 2023: 542 → 423. 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 Strawberry Point’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Strawberry Point: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 465 residents head out to work, 46 work right here, and 377 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.83 per resident).
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 Strawberry Point commutes to
Where Strawberry Point clocks in
10% of workers
7% of workers
7% 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.
How long Strawberry Point spends getting to work: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Strawberry Point workers work from home, vs 11% across Iowa. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 480 commuters (the 11% 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.
Strawberry Point’s commute, mile by mile
About 20% 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.
Strawberry Point is easy on foot, hard by bus
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 8.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 4.4% across Iowa, on an EPA index of 7.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 538 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 6.4% of Strawberry Point households have no vehicle (Iowa 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Strawberry Point’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500, Strawberry Point comes 2,767th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 70 | University Heights IA | 1,177 | $111K | 14.5% | 1.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 83 | Walford IA | 1,359 | $129K | 1.1% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 155 | Gilbert IA | 1,389 | $123K | 3.4% | 4.1% | 8% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,765 | Daniels WV | 1,489 | $60K | 24.2% | 3.9% | 3% | C− |
| 2,766 | Oxford IN | 1,183 | $52K | 13.9% | 6.5% | 1% | C− |
| 2,767 | Strawberry Point IA | 1,126 | $58K | 11.3% | 5.1% | 9% | C− |
| 2,768 | Raleigh MS | 1,066 | $62K | 13.7% | 16.6% | 7% | C− |
| 2,769 | Ashland NY | 1,437 | $56K | 16.4% | 5.8% | <1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Strawberry Point, the top three, the last and three more from Iowa.
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 Strawberry Point: questions
What is the median household income in Strawberry Point?
$57,778 (±$10,377) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $75,059 across Iowa and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Strawberry Point?
11.3%, against 11.1% across Iowa and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Strawberry Point?
20 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Iowa and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Strawberry Point work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Edgewood (10%, 7 mi), Manchester (7%, 14 mi), Elkader (7%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Strawberry Point walkable?
Strawberry Point is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Strawberry Point without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Strawberry Point, from the people who make the trip.
More of Strawberry Point
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.