Work & commute · Colonial Pine Hills

Work & commute in Colonial Pine Hills, SD

Most working residents leave Colonial Pine Hills for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Rapid City (74%), Sioux Falls (4%) and Box Elder (2%). Half commute less than 7 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
1%
7 of 748 working residents
Typical commute
7 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
21 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
3%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 741 Colonial Pine Hills residents head out of town to work, 7 work right here, and 149 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Colonial Pine Hills.

741live here, work elsewhere
7live and work here
149work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Colonial Pine Hills goes to work

Hill CitySummersetSturgisBelle FourchePierreSpearfishBox ElderSioux FallsRapid CityBlackhawkRapid ValleyColonial Pine HillsRapid CitySioux FallsBox ElderPierreSpearfishBlackhawkSummersetHill CityBelle FourcheColonial Pine Hills
1
Rapid City6.2 mi away
74%550
2
Sioux Falls329.9 mi away
4%33
3
Box Elder13.4 mi away
2%17
4
Pierre150.4 mi away
1%10
5
Spearfish41.3 mi away
1%7
6
Colonial Pine Hills (in town)right here
1%7
7
Blackhawk9.6 mi away
1%6
8
Summerset12.5 mi away
1%5
9
Hill City13.9 mi away
0%3
10
Belle Fourche52.3 mi away
0%3
Everywhere elseother towns and states
14%107

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

How far

How far Colonial Pine Hills commutes

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

77%Under 10 mi
7%10–24 mi
4%25–50 mi
13%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Colonial Pine Hills is a commuter town

0.21jobs per working resident
A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Colonial Pine Hills are

156 jobs are based in Colonial Pine Hills. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Colonial Pine Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Colonial Pine Hills

156 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)29%
Trade, transport & utilities13%
Services (health, schools, offices…)57%
$1,250 a month or less16%
$1,251–$3,333 a month32%
Over $3,333 a month52%

Jobs Colonial Pine Hills residents hold

748 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)10%
Trade, transport & utilities17%
Services (health, schools, offices…)73%
$1,250 a month or less14%
$1,251–$3,333 a month20%
Over $3,333 a month65%
+15%

Jobs based in Colonial Pine Hills, 2013 → 2023: 136 → 156. 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.

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