Work & commute · Moville

Work & commute in Moville, IA

Most working residents leave Moville for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Sioux City (40%), South Sioux City (4%) and Le Mars (4%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

49 of 724 working residents

Typical commute

17 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 675 Moville residents head out of town to work, 49 work right here, and 291 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Moville.

675live here, work elsewhere

49live and work here

291work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Moville goes to work

Sioux City16.4 mi away

40%287

Moville (in town)right here

7%49

South Sioux City, NE17.7 mi away

4%30

Le Mars20.8 mi away

4%27

Sergeant Bluff15.8 mi away

3%22

Lawton6 mi away

3%21

North Sioux City, SD22 mi away

2%18

Bronson9.2 mi away

2%14

Des Moines141.2 mi away

1%10

Omaha, NE84.8 mi away

1%7

Everywhere elseother towns and states

33%239

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

How far

How far Moville commutes

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

15%

62%

19%

15%Under 10 mi

62%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Moville is a commuter town

0.47jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Moville are

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

Jobs based in Moville

340 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)7%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month49%

Jobs Moville residents hold

724 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month63%

+5%

Jobs based in Moville, 2013 → 2023: 323 → 340. 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.