Photo: Andrew Filer from Seattle (ex-Minneapolis) · CC BY-SA 2.0Jobs and earnings in Dickey, and the trip to work
Working residents average 23 minutes each way; North Dakota averages 18, the U.S. 26. 0% of workers have no commute at all; North Dakota has 8%. Hardly any work in Dickey itself; outside it, Edgeley draws the most (33%, 17 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Dickey quiets down on a workday
On a workday 9 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 0 people come in from elsewhere.
About 41 people are in Dickey on a workday afternoon, 18% fewer than live here.
0.00 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 trip to work from Dickey ends
Where Dickey clocks in
33% of workers
22% of workers
11% 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.
From Dickey, about 23 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dickey workers work from home, vs 8% across North Dakota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 25 commuters (the 0% 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 Dickey’s workers travel
About 22% 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 Dickey: questions
What is the median household income in Dickey?
$60,179 (±$21,832) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,657 across North Dakota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dickey?
0.0%, against 10.8% across North Dakota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dickey?
23 minutes each way on average, against 18 across North Dakota and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dickey work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Edgeley (33%, 17 mi), Fargo (22%, 81 mi), LaMoure (11%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Dickey 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 Dickey, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dickey
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.