Work & commute · Montour

Work & commute in Montour, IA

Most working residents leave Montour for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Marshalltown (13%), Tama (8%) and Toledo (7%). Half commute less than 35 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

1 of 90 working residents

Typical commute

35 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

19%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 89 Montour residents head out of town to work, 1 work right here, and 32 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Montour.

89live here, work elsewhere

1live and work here

32work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Montour goes to work

Marshalltown10.5 mi away

13%12

Tama7.3 mi away

8%7

Toledo7 mi away

7%6

Cedar Rapids53.2 mi away

7%6

Homestead46 mi away

6%5

Waterloo40 mi away

4%4

Grinnell16.9 mi away

3%3

West Des Moines62.5 mi away

3%3

Belle Plaine23.3 mi away

2%2

Altoona45.5 mi away

2%2

Everywhere elseother towns and states

44%40

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

How far

How far Montour commutes

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

28%

18%

23%

31%

28%Under 10 mi

18%10–24 mi

23%25–50 mi

31%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Montour is a commuter town

0.37jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Montour are

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

Jobs based in Montour

33 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)0%

Trade, transport & utilities0%

Services (health, schools, offices…)100%

$1,250 a month or less76%

$1,251–$3,333 a month18%

Over $3,333 a month6%

Jobs Montour residents hold

90 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)29%

Trade, transport & utilities28%

Services (health, schools, offices…)43%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month54%

+267%

Jobs based in Montour, 2013 → 2023: 9 → 33. 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.