Sioux Falls draws about three in four of Meadow View Addition’s working residents
Working from home is the commute for 21% of workers; South Dakota has 10%. Hardly any work in Meadow View Addition; the top destination outside it is Sioux Falls (72%, 6 miles). The trip to work takes 27 minutes on average; South Dakota averages 18, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Meadow View Addition
More than half of Meadow View Addition works in Sioux Falls
229 working residents, 72%, have their main job in Sioux Falls, 5.9 miles away. That’s far more as work in Meadow View Addition itself. The commute map ↓
Most Meadow View Addition residents work close to home
78% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
Meadow View Addition is a place people come home to
There are 34 jobs based in Meadow View Addition, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Meadow View Addition has about 600 people in it, 32% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 317 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where people from Meadow View Addition work
Where Meadow View Addition clocks in
3% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Meadow View Addition
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.
Meadow View Addition by day and by night
On a workday 316 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 33 people come in from elsewhere.
About 600 people are in Meadow View Addition on a workday afternoon, 32% fewer than live here.
0.11 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Meadow View Addition makes things: 29% of its jobs are in goods
34 jobs are based in Meadow View Addition.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Meadow View Addition, 2013 → 2023: 70 → 34. 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 Meadow View Addition’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Meadow View Addition’s commute takes about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Meadow View Addition workers work from home, vs 10% across South Dakota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 309 commuters (the 21% 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.
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 Meadow View Addition: questions
What is the median household income in Meadow View Addition?
$99,760 (±$24,908) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $75,081 across South Dakota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Meadow View Addition?
2.5%, against 11.9% across South Dakota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Meadow View Addition?
27 minutes each way on average, against 18 across South Dakota and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Meadow View Addition work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sioux Falls (72%, 6 mi), Sioux City (3%, 80 mi), Brandon (2%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Meadow View Addition 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 Meadow View Addition, from the people who make the trip.
More of Meadow View Addition
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.