Work & commute · Mount Ayr

Work & commute in Mount Ayr, IA

About one in 4 of Mount Ayr’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Des Moines (5%), Diagonal (4%) and Creston (4%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

27%

174 of 652 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 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 478 Mount Ayr residents head out of town to work, 174 work right here, and 503 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mount Ayr.

478live here, work elsewhere

174live and work here

503work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mount Ayr goes to work

Mount Ayr (in town)right here

27%174

Des Moines67.7 mi away

5%30

Diagonal8.6 mi away

4%25

Creston24.8 mi away

4%24

Osceola32.3 mi away

3%20

Lamoni17.4 mi away

3%19

West Des Moines62.4 mi away

3%18

Lenox20.4 mi away

2%11

Oskaloosa92.3 mi away

1%8

Urbandale68 mi away

1%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

48%315

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

How far

How far Mount Ayr commutes

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

43%

14%

10%

33%

43%Under 10 mi

14%10–24 mi

10%25–50 mi

33%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mount Ayr is balanced between jobs and homes

1.04jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.04 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Mount Ayr are

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

Jobs based in Mount Ayr

677 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month40%

Jobs Mount Ayr residents hold

652 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month49%

−13%

Jobs based in Mount Ayr, 2013 → 2023: 778 → 677. 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.