Photo: Farragutful · CC BY-SA 4.0Toronto has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Working from home is the commute for 30% of workers, where Iowa as a whole has 11%. Toronto has 6 jobs for 48 working residents. Hardly any work in Toronto; the top destination outside it is DeWitt (21%, 17 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Toronto on a workday afternoon
On a workday 48 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 6 people come in from elsewhere.
About 58 people are in Toronto on a workday afternoon, 42% 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 Toronto goes to work
Where Toronto clocks in
21% of workers
19% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Toronto, 2013 → 2023: 11 → 6. 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 Toronto’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 24 minutes from Toronto
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Toronto workers work from home, vs 11% across Iowa. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 21 commuters (the 30% 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 distance from Toronto to work
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 Toronto: questions
What is the median household income in Toronto?
$51,786 (±$16,826) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $75,059 across Iowa and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Toronto?
5.7%, against 11.1% across Iowa and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Toronto?
24 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Iowa and 26 nationally. 30% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Toronto work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are DeWitt (21%, 17 mi), Davenport (19%, 27 mi), Maquoketa (6%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Toronto 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 Toronto, from the people who make the trip.
More of Toronto
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.