Bon Homme County Courthouse · Photo: Ammodramus · CC0Households in Tyndall earn less than those in 87% of U.S. towns
1% of workers have no commute at all (South Dakota 10%). The poverty rate is 8.5% (South Dakota 11.9%). For jobs and income Tyndall is better than 16% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (C+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Tyndall
Tyndall’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Tyndall is Yankton, 25 miles away as the crow flies. 19% of working residents (80) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Few Tyndall workers work from home
Only 1% of workers work from home, against 10% across South Dakota. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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 419 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Tyndall’s Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Tyndall’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 7% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (3.1%) is left out: Tyndall’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Tyndall could be anywhere from D to C.
Half of Tyndall commutes less than 24 miles
About 27% 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.
A commute of about 18 minutes in Tyndall
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tyndall workers work from home, vs 10% across South Dakota. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 528 commuters (the 1% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Tyndall
On a workday 335 residents head out to work, 84 work right here, and 435 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.24 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
19% of working residents work in Yankton
Where Tyndall clocks in
19% 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.
Jobs in Tyndall: what the 519 are
519 jobs are based in Tyndall.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tyndall, 2013 → 2023: 520 → 519. 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 Tyndall’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Driving is how Tyndall gets around
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 4.3% across South Dakota.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 535 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 5.2% of Tyndall households have no vehicle (South Dakota 5.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Tyndall’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500, Tyndall ranks 2,737th of 3,771 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 105 | Wall Lake Township SD | 1,210 | $129K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 126 | Jefferson Township SD | 1,207 | $196K | 2.0% | 3.6% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 128 | Crooks SD | 1,415 | $99K | 0.5% | 1.4% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,735 | Advance MO | 1,323 | $60K | 14.0% | 0.7% | 9% | C− |
| 2,736 | Yachats OR | 1,013 | $67K | 12.4% | 7.2% | 20% | C− |
| 2,737 | Tyndall SD | 1,117 | $50K | 8.5% | 3.1% | 20% | C− |
| 2,738 | Millington MI | 1,003 | $56K | 18.9% | 5.1% | 4% | C− |
| 2,739 | Boonville NC | 1,203 | $68K | 16.0% | 3.8% | 3% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Tyndall, the top three, the last and three more from South Dakota.
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 Tyndall: questions
What is the median household income in Tyndall?
$50,481 (±$10,594) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $75,081 across South Dakota and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tyndall?
8.5%, against 11.9% across South Dakota and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tyndall?
18 minutes each way on average, against 18 across South Dakota and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tyndall work?
20% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Yankton (19%, 25 mi), Scotland (11%, 13 mi), Sioux Falls (9%, 68 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Tyndall walkable?
Tyndall is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tyndall without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tyndall, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tyndall
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.