Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 4.0Reliance has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
Reliance has 23 jobs, and 50 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Reliance; the top destination outside it is Oacoma (16%, 13 miles). 0% of workers have no commute at all, against 10% across South Dakota.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Reliance
On a workday 50 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 23 people come in from elsewhere.
About 100 people are in Reliance on a workday afternoon, 21% 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 Reliance goes to work
Where Reliance clocks in
16% of workers
8% 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.
Reliance makes things: 57% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Reliance, 2013 → 2023: 29 → 23. 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 Reliance’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Reliance: about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Reliance workers work from home, vs 10% across South Dakota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 87 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 Reliance
About 28% 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 Reliance: questions
What is the median household income in Reliance?
$55,313 (±$24,820) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $75,081 across South Dakota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Reliance?
3.8%, against 11.9% across South Dakota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Reliance?
19 minutes each way on average, against 18 across South Dakota and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Reliance work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Oacoma (16%, 13 mi), Presho (8%, 23 mi), Sioux Falls (8%, 145 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Reliance 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 Reliance, from the people who make the trip.
More of Reliance
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.