Stockholm has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Stockholm has 12 jobs; 38 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Stockholm itself; outside it, Milbank draws the most (26%, 11 miles). Home is the office for 3% of workers, where South Dakota as a whole has 10%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Stockholm quiets down on a workday
On a workday 38 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 12 people come in from elsewhere.
About 76 people are in Stockholm on a workday afternoon, 25% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where Stockholm goes to work
Where Stockholm clocks in
26% 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.
Stockholm works in goods: 50% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Stockholm, 2014 → 2024: 9 → 12. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Stockholm’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Stockholm: 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 Stockholm workers work from home, vs 10% across South Dakota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 29 commuters (the 3% 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 Stockholm
About 45% 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 2024.
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 2024, 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 Stockholm: questions
What is the poverty rate in Stockholm?
16.2%, against 11.9% across South Dakota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Stockholm?
27 minutes each way on average, against 18 across South Dakota and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Stockholm work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Milbank (26%, 11 mi), Sioux Falls (24%, 108 mi), Watertown (8%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Stockholm without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Stockholm, from the people who make the trip.
More of Stockholm
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.