Work & commute · Civil Bend

Work & commute in Civil Bend, SD

Most working residents leave Civil Bend for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are North Sioux City (20%), Sioux City (14%) and Sioux Falls (9%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

1 of 112 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

11 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

20%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 111 Civil Bend residents head out of town to work, 1 work right here, and 30 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Civil Bend.

111live here, work elsewhere

1live and work here

30work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Civil Bend goes to work

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

How far

How far Civil Bend commutes

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

35%

38%

26%

35%Under 10 mi

38%10–24 mi

1%25–50 mi

26%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Civil Bend is a commuter town

0.28jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Civil Bend are

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

Jobs based in Civil Bend

31 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities84%

Services (health, schools, offices…)0%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month6%

Over $3,333 a month84%

Jobs Civil Bend residents hold

112 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month15%

Over $3,333 a month68%

−48%

Jobs based in Civil Bend, 2013 → 2023: 60 → 31. 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.