Most of Twin Brooks commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Twin Brooks has 13 jobs; 26 of its residents have a job. Hardly any stay in Twin Brooks for work; outside it, Milbank is the main destination (27%, 7 miles). For 0% of workers, the job is at home, 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
Who works in Twin Brooks, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 26 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 13 people come in from elsewhere.
About 34 people are in Twin Brooks 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.
The towns that employ Twin Brooks’ residents
Where Twin Brooks clocks in
27% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Twin Brooks
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Twin Brooks, 2013 → 2023: 3 → 13. 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 Twin Brooks’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Twin Brooks: about 18 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Twin Brooks 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.
How far it is to work from Twin Brooks
About 42% 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 Twin Brooks: questions
What is the poverty rate in Twin Brooks?
27.6%, against 11.9% across South Dakota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Twin Brooks?
18 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 Twin Brooks work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Milbank (27%, 7 mi), Sioux Falls (23%, 115 mi), Blooming Valley Township (12%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Twin Brooks 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 Twin Brooks, from the people who make the trip.
More of Twin Brooks
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.