Every workday, about 730 people come to North Eagle Butte for work
53% of North Eagle Butte’s working residents work right in town. The top destinations are Eagle Butte (21%), Timber Lake (4%) and Isabel (2%). Half commute less than 1 miles.
What kind of work town is North Eagle Butte?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
Half of North Eagle Butte commutes less than 1 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
947 jobs are based in North Eagle Butte. Here is what they are, next to the jobs North Eagle Butte’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in North Eagle Butte, 2013 → 2023: 382 → 947. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
North Eagle Butte fills up on a workday
On a workday 194 residents head out to work, 218 work right here, and 729 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,000 people are in North Eagle Butte on a workday afternoon, 36% more than live here.
2.3 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
21% of North Eagle Butte works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Eagle Butte (21%). Darker towns draw more of North Eagle Butte’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
About 12 minutes each way, quicker than most of South Dakota
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of North Eagle Butte workers work from home, vs 10% across South Dakota. Their commute is the hallway.
Where North Eagle Butte’s workers come from
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where North Eagle Butte clocks in
21% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
- Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
More of North Eagle Butte
Commuter talk
Getting to work from North Eagle Butte, from the people who make the trip.
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Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.