Photo: Andrew Filer from Seattle (ex-Minneapolis) · CC BY-SA 2.0Most of Ayr commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Hardly any work in Ayr itself; outside it, West Fargo draws the most (25%, 30 miles). Employers in Ayr report 1 jobs, against 4 working residents. For 17% of workers, the job is at home, next to 8% for North Dakota as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Ayr quiets down on a workday
On a workday 4 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 1 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7 people are in Ayr on a workday afternoon, 30% 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 Ayr’s working residents head each day
Where Ayr clocks in
25% of workers
25% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Ayr
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Ayr’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 23 minutes each way, longer than most of North Dakota
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ayr workers work from home, vs 8% across North Dakota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 10 commuters (the 17% who work from home are left out). Across North Dakota: 85% 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 far it is to work from Ayr
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 Ayr: questions
What is the poverty rate in Ayr?
0.0%, against 10.8% across North Dakota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ayr?
23 minutes each way on average, against 18 across North Dakota and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ayr work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are West Fargo (25%, 30 mi), Fargo (25%, 34 mi), Weimer Township (25%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Ayr 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 Ayr, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ayr
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.