Work & commute · Lyons

Work & commute in Lyons, SD

Most working residents leave Lyons for work: only 10% work in town. The top destinations are Sioux Falls (59%), Lyons (7%) and Hartford (3%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10%

28 of 271 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 243 Lyons residents head out of town to work, 28 work right here, and 624 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lyons.

243live here, work elsewhere

28live and work here

624work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Lyons goes to work

Sioux Falls13.2 mi away

59%160

Lyons1.9 mi away

7%18

Lyons (in town)right here

4%10

Hartford8.5 mi away

3%7

Dell Rapids9.3 mi away

2%6

Brookings40.5 mi away

2%5

Burk6.1 mi away

2%5

Sioux City, IA87.4 mi away

1%4

Grand Meadow5.8 mi away

1%4

Colton6.9 mi away

1%3

Everywhere elseother towns and states

18%49

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

How far

How far Lyons commutes

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

25%

62%

25%Under 10 mi

62%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

9%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Lyons is a job hub

2.41jobs per working resident

A job hub

2.4 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Lyons are

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

Jobs based in Lyons

652 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)74%

Trade, transport & utilities2%

Services (health, schools, offices…)24%

$1,250 a month or less4%

$1,251–$3,333 a month15%

Over $3,333 a month81%

Jobs Lyons residents hold

271 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month17%

Over $3,333 a month72%

+806%

Jobs based in Lyons, 2013 → 2023: 72 → 652. 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.