Photo: Andrew Filer from Seattle (ex-Minneapolis) · CC BY-SA 2.0A job hub: Fort Yates has 2.0 jobs per working resident, and 44 people come in to work
Employers in Fort Yates report 45 jobs, and 23 of its residents work somewhere. Only 4% work in Fort Yates; the top destination outside it is Cannon Ball (13%, 16 miles). 0% of workers work from home; North Dakota has 8%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Fort Yates: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 22 residents head out to work and 1 work right here.
About 190 people are in Fort Yates on a workday afternoon, 13% 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 Fort Yates’s workers come from
Where Fort Yates clocks in
13% of workers
4% of workers
4% 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.
What Fort Yates’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fort Yates, 2013 → 2023: 44 → 45. 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 Fort Yates’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 16 minutes each way, about the ND average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fort Yates workers work from home, vs 8% across North Dakota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 37 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.
Fort Yates’ commute, mile by mile
About 30% 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 Fort Yates: questions
What is the median household income in Fort Yates?
$97,250 (±$28,441) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,657 across North Dakota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fort Yates?
23.4%, against 10.8% across North Dakota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fort Yates?
16 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 Fort Yates work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cannon Ball (13%, 16 mi), Minneapolis (4%, 365 mi), Solen (4%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Fort Yates without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 22% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fort Yates, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fort Yates
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.