Photo: Jared Winkler · CC BY-SA 4.0A job hub: Yetter has 2.0 jobs per working resident, and 12 people come in to work
Hardly any stay in Yetter for work; outside it, Lake City is the main destination (33%, 7 miles). Employers in Yetter report 12 jobs, and 6 of its residents work somewhere. For 0% of workers, the job is at home (Iowa 11%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Yetter by day and by night
On a workday 6 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 26 people are in Yetter on a workday afternoon, 30% 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.
Where the people who work in Yetter live
Where Yetter clocks in
33% of workers
17% of workers
17% 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.
Goods jobs make up 100% of work in Yetter
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Yetter, 2013 → 2023: 4 → 12. 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 Yetter’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Yetter
of Yetter workers work from home, vs 11% across Iowa. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 8 commuters (the 0% 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.
How many miles Yetter commutes
About 33% 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 Yetter: questions
What is the poverty rate in Yetter?
6.7%, against 11.1% across Iowa and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Yetter work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lake City (33%, 7 mi), Newell (17%, 22 mi), Ames (17%, 66 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Yetter 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 Yetter, from the people who make the trip.
More of Yetter
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.