Photo: Farragutful · CC BY-SA 4.0Walcott has 1.8 jobs for every working resident: 1,194 people commute in to work
There are 1,234 jobs in Walcott, and 676 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Walcott B+; getting around on foot earns it A−. Only 6% work in Walcott itself; outside it, Davenport draws the most (32%, 9 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Walcott and work: the main findings
Walcott and Davenport trade workers both ways
Davenport is the top workplace for Walcott residents (32%) and also where the most people who work in Walcott come from (29% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Walcott is where the jobs are
Walcott has 1,234 jobs, 1.8 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Walcott
67% of Walcott residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 46% of the jobs based in Walcott pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 94% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 676 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Walcott’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Walcott is better than 70% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate is its strongest input (6.6%, U.S. 12.5%); household income ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns ($78,580, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (3.6%) is left out: Walcott’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Walcott could be anywhere from C+ to A.
The daily trip into Walcott
Where Walcott clocks in
32% of workers
6% of workers
5% 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 many people are in Walcott by day
On a workday 636 residents head out to work and 40 work right here.
About 2,100 people are in Walcott on a workday afternoon, 36% more 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 kinds of work in Walcott
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Walcott, 2013 → 2023: 1,040 → 1,234. 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 Walcott’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Walcott spends getting to work: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Walcott workers work from home, vs 11% across Iowa. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 838 commuters (the 7% 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 Walcott, by distance
About 15% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Walcott
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Walcott is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Walcott near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 902 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). 2.6% of Walcott households have no vehicle (Iowa 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Walcott’s commuters take a bus or train.
Walcott is 1,091st of 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 123 | University Heights IA | 1,177 | $111K | 14.5% | 1.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 135 | Van Meter IA | 1,978 | $135K | 2.6% | 1.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 142 | Walford IA | 1,359 | $129K | 1.1% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,089 | Winfield Township NJ | 1,450 | $64K | 8.5% | 8.4% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,090 | Camden NC | 1,115 | $94K | 1.1% | 9.7% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,091 | Walcott IA | 1,530 | $79K | 6.6% | 3.6% | 6% | B+ |
| 1,092 | Mesilla NM | 1,818 | $75K | 4.5% | 6.8% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,093 | Rehoboth Beach DE | 1,309 | $138K | 8.7% | 6.7% | 22% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Walcott, 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 Walcott: questions
What is the median household income in Walcott?
$78,580 (±$16,008) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $75,059 across Iowa and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Walcott?
6.6%, against 11.1% across Iowa and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Walcott?
20 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Iowa and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Walcott work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Davenport (32%, 9 mi), Bettendorf (6%, 16 mi), Muscatine (5%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Walcott walkable?
Walcott is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.4 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Walcott without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Walcott, from the people who make the trip.
More of Walcott
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.