Work & commute · Bondurant

Work & commute in Bondurant, IA

Most working residents leave Bondurant for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Des Moines (31%), Ankeny (15%) and West Des Moines (10%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

243 of 4,150 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

14%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 3,907 Bondurant residents head out of town to work, 243 work right here, and 4,468 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Bondurant.

3,907live here, work elsewhere

243live and work here

4,468work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Bondurant goes to work

Des Moines12.1 mi away

31%1,276

Ankeny8.2 mi away

15%629

West Des Moines20.1 mi away

10%402

Bondurant (in town)right here

6%243

Urbandale17.7 mi away

5%204

Altoona3.8 mi away

4%180

Ames24.3 mi away

3%136

Johnston14.3 mi away

3%132

Clive19.2 mi away

2%74

Pleasant Hill7.6 mi away

1%45

Everywhere elseother towns and states

20%829

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

How far

How far Bondurant commutes

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

37%

51%

37%Under 10 mi

51%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

8%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Bondurant is balanced between jobs and homes

1.14jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.14 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Bondurant are

4,711 jobs are based in Bondurant. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Bondurant’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Bondurant

4,711 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities74%

Services (health, schools, offices…)20%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month45%

Jobs Bondurant residents hold

4,150 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month16%

Over $3,333 a month74%

+747%

Jobs based in Bondurant, 2013 → 2023: 556 → 4,711. 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.