City Commute Profile
Des Moines, IA
Where Des Moines’s 101,141 resident workers go each day — 41.2% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is West Des Moines.
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How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.
These figures are for Des Moines proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.
How Des Moines commutes
Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.
Des Moines
101,141 commutes, one dot at a time
Des Moines
Where 101,141 workers commute
Where residents work
Top destinations for people who live in Des Moines, by worker count.
Who commutes in
Top origin places for workers who travel into Des Moines.
Top industries
The sectors that employ Des Moines’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.
Des Moines city profile
Who lives in Des Moines — population, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.
Internet options for Des Moines
The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.
FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).