Work & commute · Mathews

Work & commute in Mathews, SD

Most working residents leave Mathews for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are De Smet (18%), Sioux Falls (9%) and Brookings (8%). Half commute less than 40 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

1 of 66 working residents

Typical commute

40 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

12 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

17%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 65 Mathews residents head out of town to work, 1 work right here, and 19 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mathews.

65live here, work elsewhere

1live and work here

19work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mathews goes to work

De Smet8.7 mi away

18%12

Sioux Falls64.7 mi away

9%6

Brookings38.4 mi away

8%5

Watertown49.1 mi away

8%5

Lake Norden28 mi away

5%3

Iroquois16 mi away

3%2

Lake Preston11.6 mi away

3%2

Clark43.7 mi away

3%2

Madison28.5 mi away

3%2

Huron32.8 mi away

3%2

Everywhere elseother towns and states

38%25

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

How far

How far Mathews commutes

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

14%

17%

38%

31%

14%Under 10 mi

17%10–24 mi

38%25–50 mi

31%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mathews is a commuter town

0.30jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Mathews are

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

Jobs based in Mathews

20 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)75%

Trade, transport & utilities10%

Services (health, schools, offices…)15%

$1,250 a month or less30%

$1,251–$3,333 a month50%

Over $3,333 a month20%

Jobs Mathews residents hold

66 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)38%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)39%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month52%

+150%

Jobs based in Mathews, 2013 → 2023: 8 → 20. 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.