East Fairview has 1.8 jobs for every working resident: 32 people commute in to work
Home is the office for 0% of workers; North Dakota has 8%. 32 jobs are based in East Fairview, and 18 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in East Fairview; the top destination outside it is Williston (28%, 29 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves East Fairview for work, and who comes in
On a workday 18 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 150 people are in East Fairview on a workday afternoon, 10% 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.
Commuting in to East Fairview: where workers come from
Where East Fairview clocks in
28% of workers
6% 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.
In East Fairview, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in East Fairview, 2013 → 2023: 33 → 32. 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 Fairview’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in East Fairview
of East Fairview workers work from home, vs 8% across North Dakota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 14 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 East Fairview goes to work
About 29% 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 East Fairview: questions
What is the poverty rate in East Fairview?
37.2%, against 10.8% across North Dakota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in East Fairview work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Williston (28%, 29 mi), Watford City (11%, 36 mi), Culbertson (6%, 30 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around East Fairview without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 41% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from East Fairview, from the people who make the trip.
More of East Fairview
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.