Most of Orient Township commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
Working from home is the commute for 50% of workers, against 10% across South Dakota. Employers in Orient Township report 6 jobs for 16 working residents. Hardly any work in Orient Township itself; outside it, Faulkton draws the most (38%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Orient Township, and who commutes in
On a workday 16 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 6 people come in from elsewhere.
About 26 people are in Orient Township on a workday afternoon, 28% 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.
Where Orient Township’s working residents head each day
Where Orient Township clocks in
13% 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.
A place that makes things: 100% of Orient Township’s jobs are in goods
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 Orient Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Orient Township
of Orient Township workers work from home, vs 10% across South Dakota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3 commuters (the 50% 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.
Miles to work from Orient Township
About 44% 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.
The towns around Orient Township
The biggest share goes to Tamworth Township (6%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Orient Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orient Township | – | — | — | — | — |
| Orient | under 7% | — | — | 15 min | — |
| Irving Township | under 7% | — | — | — | — |
| Tamworth Township | 6% | — | — | 26 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Orient, Irving Township and Tamworth Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Orient Township’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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.
- Two counts of out-of-state work. The Census survey asks workers where they work: 0% of Orient Township workers work outside South Dakota. The job records count 13% at employers in other states. The records use the address the employer reports and skip the self-employed, so the two can differ.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Orient Township: questions
What is the poverty rate in Orient Township?
0.0%, against 11.9% across South Dakota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Orient Township work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Faulkton (38%, 7 mi), Valley City (13%, 148 mi), Webster (6%, 85 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Orient Township 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 Orient Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Orient Township
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.