Work & commute · Sweet

Work & commute in Sweet, SD

Most working residents leave Sweet for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Parkston (11%), Freeman (10%) and Sioux Falls (9%). Half commute less than 24 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

1 of 108 working residents

Typical commute

24 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

8 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

31%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 107 Sweet residents head out of town to work, 1 work right here, and 42 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Sweet.

107live here, work elsewhere

1live and work here

42work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Sweet goes to work

Parkston23.9 mi away

11%12

Freeman12.6 mi away

10%11

Sioux Falls48.8 mi away

9%10

Tripp19.1 mi away

6%6

Yankton23.9 mi away

6%6

Mitchell42.7 mi away

6%6

Menno2.4 mi away

5%5

Scotland7.7 mi away

3%3

Marion22.3 mi away

3%3

Tyndall20.4 mi away

3%3

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%43

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

How far

How far Sweet commutes

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

12%

44%

25%

19%

12%Under 10 mi

44%10–24 mi

25%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Sweet is a commuter town

0.40jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Sweet are

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

Jobs based in Sweet

43 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)84%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)0%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month12%

Over $3,333 a month67%

Jobs Sweet residents hold

108 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities28%

Services (health, schools, offices…)53%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month53%

+19%

Jobs based in Sweet, 2013 → 2023: 36 → 43. 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.