Work & commute · Adair

Work & commute in Adair, IA

Most working residents leave Adair for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Stuart (8%), Des Moines (8%) and West Des Moines (8%). Half commute less than 34 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

9 of 355 working residents

Typical commute

34 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 346 Adair residents head out of town to work, 9 work right here, and 268 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Adair.

346live here, work elsewhere

9live and work here

268work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Adair goes to work

Stuart16.9 mi away

8%29

Des Moines53.7 mi away

8%28

West Des Moines44.8 mi away

8%27

Greenfield16.5 mi away

7%26

Guthrie Center14.4 mi away

6%21

Urbandale45.7 mi away

3%10

Adair (in town)right here

3%9

Atlantic20.9 mi away

2%8

Johnston49.3 mi away

2%8

Casey6.4 mi away

2%7

Everywhere elseother towns and states

51%182

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Adair commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

11%

36%

23%

30%

11%Under 10 mi

36%10–24 mi

23%25–50 mi

30%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Adair is balanced between jobs and homes

0.78jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.78 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Adair are

277 jobs are based in Adair. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Adair’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Adair

277 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)39%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)37%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month55%

Jobs Adair residents hold

355 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month61%

−6%

Jobs based in Adair, 2013 → 2023: 295 → 277. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.