Work & commute · Lake Andes

Work & commute in Lake Andes, SD

Most working residents leave Lake Andes for work: only 12% work in town. The top destinations are Wagner (19%), Dante (11%) and Pickstown (6%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

12%

25 of 202 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

16 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 177 Lake Andes residents head out of town to work, 25 work right here, and 232 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lake Andes.

177live here, work elsewhere

25live and work here

232work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Lake Andes goes to work

Wagner13.6 mi away

19%38

Lake Andes (in town)right here

12%25

Dante19.5 mi away

11%23

Pickstown6.2 mi away

6%13

Sioux Falls94.5 mi away

5%10

Mitchell46.7 mi away

2%5

Ravinia5.7 mi away

2%4

Armour14.9 mi away

2%4

Platte22.2 mi away

2%4

Tyndall35.9 mi away

1%3

Everywhere elseother towns and states

36%73

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

How far

How far Lake Andes commutes

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

24%

39%

30%

24%Under 10 mi

39%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

30%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Lake Andes is balanced between jobs and homes

1.27jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.27 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Lake Andes are

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

Jobs based in Lake Andes

257 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)1%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)85%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month57%

Jobs Lake Andes residents hold

202 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)75%

$1,250 a month or less31%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month46%

−27%

Jobs based in Lake Andes, 2013 → 2023: 353 → 257. 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.