East Dunseith has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
For 0% of workers, the job is at home; North Dakota has 8%. East Dunseith has 8 jobs, and 133 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any stay in East Dunseith for work; outside it, Belcourt is the main destination (36%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves East Dunseith for work, and who comes in
On a workday 133 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 8 people come in from elsewhere.
About 330 people are in East Dunseith on a workday afternoon, 28% 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 East Dunseith goes to work
Where East Dunseith clocks in
36% of workers
15% 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, not services: 63% of the jobs in East Dunseith
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in East Dunseith, 2013 → 2023: 3 → 8. 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 East Dunseith’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long East Dunseith spends getting to work: about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of East Dunseith workers work from home, vs 8% across North Dakota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 108 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.
The commute from East Dunseith, by distance
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 East Dunseith: questions
What is the poverty rate in East Dunseith?
58.1%, against 10.8% across North Dakota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from East Dunseith?
21 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 East Dunseith work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Belcourt (36%, 13 mi), Dunseith (15%, 4 mi), Rolla (9%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around East Dunseith without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 35% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from East Dunseith, from the people who make the trip.
More of East Dunseith
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.