Work & commute · Cunningham

Work & commute in Cunningham, KS

Most working residents leave Cunningham for work: only 10% work in town. The top destinations are Kingman (16%), Wichita (13%) and Pratt (11%). Half commute less than 18 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10%

19 of 192 working residents

Typical commute

18 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

10%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 173 Cunningham residents head out of town to work, 19 work right here, and 162 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Cunningham.

173live here, work elsewhere

19live and work here

162work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Cunningham goes to work

Kingman17.2 mi away

16%30

Wichita59.3 mi away

13%24

Pratt18.7 mi away

11%21

Cunningham (in town)right here

10%19

Peters12.2 mi away

6%11

Dodge City87.1 mi away

3%5

Hutchinson40.7 mi away

3%5

McPherson65.2 mi away

2%4

Topeka176.6 mi away

2%4

Medicine Lodge26.2 mi away

2%3

Everywhere elseother towns and states

34%66

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

How far

How far Cunningham commutes

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

13%

40%

39%

13%Under 10 mi

40%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

39%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Cunningham is balanced between jobs and homes

0.94jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.94 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Cunningham are

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

Jobs based in Cunningham

181 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities10%

Services (health, schools, offices…)81%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month44%

Jobs Cunningham residents hold

192 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)28%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month54%

−13%

Jobs based in Cunningham, 2013 → 2023: 208 → 181. 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.