Work & commute · St. Ansgar

Work & commute in St. Ansgar, IA

About one in 5 of St. Ansgar’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Osage (18%), Mason City (6%) and Austin (5%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

20%

104 of 526 working residents

Typical commute

20 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

11%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 422 St. Ansgar residents head out of town to work, 104 work right here, and 626 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Ansgar.

422live here, work elsewhere

104live and work here

626work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Ansgar goes to work

St. Ansgar (in town)right here

20%104

Osage8.6 mi away

18%94

Mason City21.4 mi away

6%32

Austin, MN20.4 mi away

5%25

Fort Dodge87.5 mi away

2%10

Charles City25.2 mi away

2%9

Des Moines129.8 mi away

2%9

Waterloo67.7 mi away

2%8

Northwood15.6 mi away

1%7

Forest City37.1 mi away

1%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

42%223

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

How far

How far St. Ansgar commutes

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

44%

19%

11%

26%

44%Under 10 mi

19%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

26%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Ansgar is balanced between jobs and homes

1.39jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.39 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Ansgar are

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

Jobs based in St. Ansgar

730 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)57%

Trade, transport & utilities10%

Services (health, schools, offices…)33%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month17%

Over $3,333 a month70%

Jobs St. Ansgar residents hold

526 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)34%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)48%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month58%

+27%

Jobs based in St. Ansgar, 2013 → 2023: 573 → 730. 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.