Work & commute · Bonner Springs

Work & commute in Bonner Springs, KS

Most working residents leave Bonner Springs for work: only 10% work in town. The top destinations are Kansas City (19%), Overland Park (11%) and Kansas City (10%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10%

391 of 3,728 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

16%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 3,337 Bonner Springs residents head out of town to work, 391 work right here, and 3,205 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Bonner Springs.

3,337live here, work elsewhere

391live and work here

3,205work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Bonner Springs goes to work

Kansas City7.7 mi away

19%698

Overland Park16.1 mi away

11%396

Bonner Springs (in town)right here

10%391

Kansas City, MO17.6 mi away

10%357

Olathe13.6 mi away

8%308

Lenexa8.4 mi away

7%273

Shawnee5.3 mi away

6%212

Edwardsville2.8 mi away

3%96

Merriam10.3 mi away

2%76

De Soto10.9 mi away

2%68

Everywhere elseother towns and states

23%853

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

How far

How far Bonner Springs commutes

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

31%

59%

31%Under 10 mi

59%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

6%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Bonner Springs is balanced between jobs and homes

0.96jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.96 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Bonner Springs are

3,596 jobs are based in Bonner Springs. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Bonner Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Bonner Springs

3,596 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities28%

Services (health, schools, offices…)49%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month45%

Jobs Bonner Springs residents hold

3,728 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month60%

+40%

Jobs based in Bonner Springs, 2013 → 2023: 2,569 → 3,596. 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.