With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Evergreen Colony works elsewhere
4 jobs are based in Evergreen Colony for 32 working residents. Hardly any stay in Evergreen Colony for work; outside it, Faulkton is the main destination (25%, 7 miles). Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, where South Dakota as a whole has 10%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Evergreen Colony on a workday afternoon
On a workday 32 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 4 people come in from elsewhere.
About 27 people are in Evergreen Colony on a workday afternoon, 51% 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 places Evergreen Colony commutes to
Where Evergreen Colony clocks in
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.
Most jobs in Evergreen Colony are in services
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 Evergreen Colony’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Evergreen Colony
of Evergreen Colony workers work from home, vs 10% across South Dakota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 15 commuters (the 0% who work from home are left out). Across South 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Evergreen Colony
About 38% 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 Evergreen Colony: questions
What is the poverty rate in Evergreen Colony?
100.0%, against 11.9% across South Dakota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Evergreen Colony work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Faulkton (25%, 7 mi), Watertown (6%, 93 mi), Sioux Falls (6%, 158 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Evergreen Colony, from the people who make the trip.
More of Evergreen Colony
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.