Work & commute · Lime Springs

Work & commute in Lime Springs, IA

Most working residents leave Lime Springs for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Cresco (30%), Decorah (6%) and Waterloo (3%). Half commute less than 25 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

9 of 205 working residents

Typical commute

25 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 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 196 Lime Springs residents head out of town to work, 9 work right here, and 257 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lime Springs.

196live here, work elsewhere

9live and work here

257work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Lime Springs goes to work

Cresco10 mi away

30%62

Decorah27.1 mi away

6%12

Lime Springs (in town)right here

4%9

Waterloo66.3 mi away

3%7

New Hampton27.2 mi away

3%6

Dubuque103.3 mi away

3%6

Protivin18.9 mi away

2%5

Lawler26.9 mi away

1%3

Independence70.9 mi away

1%3

Cedar Rapids107.1 mi away

1%3

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%89

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

How far

How far Lime Springs commutes

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

31%

18%

17%

33%

31%Under 10 mi

18%10–24 mi

17%25–50 mi

33%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Lime Springs is balanced between jobs and homes

1.30jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.30 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Lime Springs are

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

Jobs based in Lime Springs

266 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)84%

Trade, transport & utilities8%

Services (health, schools, offices…)8%

$1,250 a month or less5%

$1,251–$3,333 a month8%

Over $3,333 a month87%

Jobs Lime Springs residents hold

205 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)34%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)42%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month57%

+103%

Jobs based in Lime Springs, 2013 → 2023: 131 → 266. 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.