Work & commute · St. Onge

Work & commute in St. Onge, SD

Most working residents leave St. Onge for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Spearfish (29%), Rapid City (19%) and Sturgis (11%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

2 of 140 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 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 138 St. Onge residents head out of town to work, 2 work right here, and 87 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Onge.

138live here, work elsewhere

2live and work here

87work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Onge goes to work

Spearfish5.8 mi away

29%40

Rapid City42.8 mi away

19%27

Sturgis16.1 mi away

11%15

Deadwood12.1 mi away

6%8

North Spearfish8.4 mi away

4%5

Lead14.4 mi away

3%4

Belle Fourche9 mi away

3%4

Sioux Falls355.4 mi away

3%4

Whitewood8.7 mi away

2%3

Aberdeen265.3 mi away

1%2

Everywhere elseother towns and states

20%28

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

How far

How far St. Onge commutes

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

44%

26%

20%

10%

44%Under 10 mi

26%10–24 mi

20%25–50 mi

10%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Onge is a commuter town

0.64jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Onge are

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

Jobs based in St. Onge

89 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)42%

Trade, transport & utilities56%

Services (health, schools, offices…)2%

$1,250 a month or less40%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month38%

Jobs St. Onge residents hold

140 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month61%

+37%

Jobs based in St. Onge, 2013 → 2023: 65 → 89. 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.