Work & commute · Letts

Work & commute in Letts, IA

Most working residents leave Letts for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Muscatine (28%), Davenport (5%) and Burlington (3%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

2 of 151 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 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 149 Letts residents head out of town to work, 2 work right here, and 22 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Letts.

149live here, work elsewhere

2live and work here

22work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Letts goes to work

Muscatine10.7 mi away

28%42

Davenport36.3 mi away

5%8

Burlington36.6 mi away

3%5

Waterloo98.7 mi away

3%5

Oakville18.9 mi away

3%4

Columbus Junction7.6 mi away

2%3

Washington23.9 mi away

2%3

Coralville31.6 mi away

2%3

Iowa City27.2 mi away

2%3

Des Moines124.1 mi away

2%3

Everywhere elseother towns and states

48%72

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

How far

How far Letts commutes

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

25%

33%

20%

23%

25%Under 10 mi

33%10–24 mi

20%25–50 mi

23%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Letts is a commuter town

0.16jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Letts are

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

Jobs based in Letts

24 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)0%

Trade, transport & utilities88%

Services (health, schools, offices…)13%

$1,250 a month or less8%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month71%

Jobs Letts residents hold

151 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)29%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)50%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month53%

+1100%

Jobs based in Letts, 2013 → 2023: 2 → 24. 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.