Work & commute · Coon Rapids

Work & commute in Coon Rapids, IA

About one in 5 of Coon Rapids’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Carroll (16%), Omaha (2%) and Jefferson (2%). Half commute less than 18 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

21%

134 of 635 working residents

Typical commute

18 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

10%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 501 Coon Rapids residents head out of town to work, 134 work right here, and 251 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Coon Rapids.

501live here, work elsewhere

134live and work here

251work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Coon Rapids goes to work

Coon Rapids (in town)right here

21%134

Carroll16.6 mi away

16%99

Omaha, NE82.7 mi away

2%15

Jefferson18.3 mi away

2%13

Sioux City97.5 mi away

2%11

Council Bluffs75.1 mi away

2%10

West Des Moines51.4 mi away

2%10

Bayard6.4 mi away

1%8

Scranton12 mi away

1%8

Glidden12.9 mi away

1%7

Everywhere elseother towns and states

50%320

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

How far

How far Coon Rapids commutes

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

27%

34%

31%

27%Under 10 mi

34%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

31%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Coon Rapids is a commuter town

0.61jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.61 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Coon Rapids are

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

Jobs based in Coon Rapids

385 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities33%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less25%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month49%

Jobs Coon Rapids residents hold

635 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities26%

Services (health, schools, offices…)51%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month58%

−22%

Jobs based in Coon Rapids, 2013 → 2023: 495 → 385. 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.