Work & commute · Mapleton

Work & commute in Mapleton, IA

Most working residents leave Mapleton for work: only 19% work in town. The top destinations are Sioux City (12%), Onawa (7%) and Omaha (3%). Half commute less than 35 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

19%

105 of 553 working residents

Typical commute

35 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 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 448 Mapleton residents head out of town to work, 105 work right here, and 370 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mapleton.

448live here, work elsewhere

105live and work here

370work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mapleton goes to work

Mapleton (in town)right here

19%105

Sioux City38.1 mi away

12%69

Onawa18.2 mi away

7%40

Omaha, NE64 mi away

3%19

Storm Lake44.7 mi away

3%14

Des Moines119.5 mi away

2%12

Ida Grove20.3 mi away

2%11

Whiting18.6 mi away

2%9

Denison24.8 mi away

2%9

Council Bluffs64.4 mi away

2%9

Everywhere elseother towns and states

46%256

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

How far

How far Mapleton commutes

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

21%

30%

28%

21%Under 10 mi

21%10–24 mi

30%25–50 mi

28%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mapleton is balanced between jobs and homes

0.86jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.86 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Mapleton are

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

Jobs based in Mapleton

475 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)1%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)75%

$1,250 a month or less26%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month40%

Jobs Mapleton residents hold

553 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities27%

Services (health, schools, offices…)55%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month59%

+16%

Jobs based in Mapleton, 2013 → 2023: 409 → 475. 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.