Photo: Jared Winkler · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Ames commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Home is the office for 0% of workers; Nebraska has 11%. 3 jobs are based in Ames for 14 working residents. Hardly any work in Ames itself; outside it, Lincoln draws the most (29%, 44 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Ames by day and by night
On a workday 14 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 3 people come in from elsewhere.
About 0 people are in Ames on a workday afternoon, 100% 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.
The towns that employ Ames’ residents
Where Ames clocks in
29% of workers
14% 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.
67% of the jobs in Ames pay over $3,333 a month
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 Ames’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Ames
of Ames workers work from home, vs 11% across Nebraska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 9 commuters (the 0% who work from home are left out). Across Nebraska: 86% 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.
Miles to work from Ames
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 Ames: questions
What is the poverty rate in Ames?
0.0%, against 10.6% across Nebraska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Ames work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lincoln (29%, 44 mi), Fremont (21%, 7 mi), North Bend (14%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Ames 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 Ames, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ames
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.