Work & commute · Crooked Creek

Work & commute in Crooked Creek, SD

Most working residents leave Crooked Creek for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Rapid City (33%), Box Elder (22%) and Spearfish (11%). Half commute less than 47 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

0 of 9 working residents

Typical commute

47 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

— 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 9 Crooked Creek residents head out of town to work, 0 work right here, and 8 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Crooked Creek.

9live here, work elsewhere

0live and work here

8work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Crooked Creek goes to work

Rapid City42.1 mi away

33%3

Box Elder36.2 mi away

22%2

Spearfish79.9 mi away

11%1

Interior27.3 mi away

11%1

Everywhere elseother towns and states

22%2

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

How far

How far Crooked Creek commutes

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

67%

33%

0%Under 10 mi

0%10–24 mi

67%25–50 mi

33%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Crooked Creek is balanced between jobs and homes

0.89jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.89 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Crooked Creek are

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

Jobs based in Crooked Creek

8 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)100%

Trade, transport & utilities0%

Services (health, schools, offices…)0%

$1,250 a month or less25%

$1,251–$3,333 a month13%

Over $3,333 a month63%

Jobs Crooked Creek residents hold

9 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities67%

Services (health, schools, offices…)22%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month56%

+100%

Jobs based in Crooked Creek, 2013 → 2023: 4 → 8. 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.