Work & commute · Hospers

Work & commute in Hospers, IA

Most working residents leave Hospers for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Sioux Center (16%), Orange City (12%) and Sheldon (10%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

20 of 337 working residents

Typical commute

14 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

13 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

11%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 317 Hospers residents head out of town to work, 20 work right here, and 252 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Hospers.

317live here, work elsewhere

20live and work here

252work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Hospers goes to work

Sioux Center13.5 mi away

16%55

Orange City9.1 mi away

12%41

Sheldon8 mi away

10%34

Hospers (in town)right here

6%20

Hull14.2 mi away

5%16

Boyden9.5 mi away

4%15

Sioux City46.8 mi away

4%13

Rock Valley21.4 mi away

3%11

Des Moines156.4 mi away

2%6

Le Mars24.3 mi away

1%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

36%121

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

How far

How far Hospers commutes

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

40%

35%

11%

15%

40%Under 10 mi

35%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

15%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Hospers is balanced between jobs and homes

0.81jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.81 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Hospers are

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

Jobs based in Hospers

272 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)83%

Trade, transport & utilities6%

Services (health, schools, offices…)11%

$1,250 a month or less8%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month71%

Jobs Hospers residents hold

337 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)37%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)42%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month63%

−38%

Jobs based in Hospers, 2013 → 2023: 437 → 272. 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.