Work & commute · Porcupine

Work & commute in Porcupine, SD

Most working residents leave Porcupine for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Rapid City (7%), Wounded Knee (7%) and Batesland (6%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

1 of 107 working residents

Typical commute

20 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

— 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 106 Porcupine residents head out of town to work, 1 work right here, and 86 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Porcupine.

106live here, work elsewhere

1live and work here

86work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Porcupine goes to work

Rapid City70.9 mi away

7%8

Wounded Knee8.8 mi away

7%7

Batesland15.3 mi away

6%6

Oglala19.6 mi away

4%4

Wanblee39.8 mi away

2%2

Pine Ridge20 mi away

2%2

Hemingford, NE75.4 mi away

1%1

Gordon, NE32.6 mi away

1%1

Platte175.7 mi away

1%1

Hill City76.9 mi away

1%1

Everywhere elseother towns and states

69%74

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

How far

How far Porcupine commutes

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

14%

60%

19%

14%Under 10 mi

60%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Porcupine is balanced between jobs and homes

0.81jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.81 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Porcupine are

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

Jobs based in Porcupine

87 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)0%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)83%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month43%

Over $3,333 a month45%

Jobs Porcupine residents hold

107 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)7%

Trade, transport & utilities6%

Services (health, schools, offices…)88%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month50%

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.