Work & commute · La Valley

Work & commute in La Valley, SD

Most working residents leave La Valley for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Sioux Falls (63%), Harrisburg (6%) and Delapre (3%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

3 of 360 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 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 357 La Valley residents head out of town to work, 3 work right here, and 267 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in La Valley.

357live here, work elsewhere

3live and work here

267work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where La Valley goes to work

Sioux Falls10.7 mi away

63%228

Harrisburg3.8 mi away

6%21

Delapre7.4 mi away

3%10

Brookings63.4 mi away

2%8

Rapid City326.3 mi away

2%6

Sioux City, IA64.2 mi away

1%5

Tea6.1 mi away

1%4

Vermillion42.7 mi away

1%4

Yankton47.3 mi away

1%4

Springdale7.1 mi away

1%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

18%66

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

How far

How far La Valley commutes

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

50%

31%

14%

50%Under 10 mi

31%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

14%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

La Valley is a commuter town

0.75jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in La Valley are

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

Jobs based in La Valley

270 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)66%

Trade, transport & utilities28%

Services (health, schools, offices…)7%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month17%

Over $3,333 a month72%

Jobs La Valley residents hold

360 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month17%

Over $3,333 a month66%

+181%

Jobs based in La Valley, 2013 → 2023: 96 → 270. 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.