Work & commute · Wall

Work & commute in Wall, SD

Most working residents leave Wall for work: only 12% work in town. The top destinations are Rapid City (47%), Box Elder (10%) and New Underwood (4%). Half commute less than 48 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

12%

32 of 276 working residents

Typical commute

48 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

17 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 244 Wall residents head out of town to work, 32 work right here, and 436 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Wall.

244live here, work elsewhere

32live and work here

436work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Wall goes to work

Rapid City48.6 mi away

47%131

Wall (in town)right here

12%32

Box Elder42.3 mi away

10%28

New Underwood30.4 mi away

4%11

Sioux Falls276.8 mi away

4%10

Philip29 mi away

2%5

Spearfish85 mi away

2%5

Interior23.2 mi away

2%5

Hill City66 mi away

1%2

Sturgis68.5 mi away

1%2

Everywhere elseother towns and states

16%45

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

How far

How far Wall commutes

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

12%

58%

27%

12%Under 10 mi

3%10–24 mi

58%25–50 mi

27%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Wall is a job hub

1.70jobs per working resident

A job hub

1.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Wall are

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

Jobs based in Wall

468 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities36%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month56%

Jobs Wall residents hold

276 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities28%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month53%

+3%

Jobs based in Wall, 2013 → 2023: 453 → 468. 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.