Work & commute · Crooks

Work & commute in Crooks, SD

Most working residents leave Crooks for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Sioux Falls (73%), Brandon (3%) and Lyons (1%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

13 of 807 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 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 794 Crooks residents head out of town to work, 13 work right here, and 312 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Crooks.

794live here, work elsewhere

13live and work here

312work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Crooks goes to work

Sioux Falls8.7 mi away

73%591

Brandon11.9 mi away

3%21

Crooks (in town)right here

2%13

Lyons5.7 mi away

1%12

Sioux City, IA82.8 mi away

1%10

Brookings44.8 mi away

1%9

Harrisburg16 mi away

1%7

Delapre13.4 mi away

1%6

Benton2.1 mi away

1%6

Pierre181.5 mi away

1%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

16%127

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

How far

How far Crooks commutes

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

56%

31%

10%

56%Under 10 mi

31%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

10%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Crooks is a commuter town

0.40jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Crooks are

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

Jobs based in Crooks

325 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)40%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)46%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month16%

Over $3,333 a month75%

Jobs Crooks residents hold

807 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month16%

Over $3,333 a month70%

+19%

Jobs based in Crooks, 2013 → 2023: 274 → 325. 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.