Work & commute · Fort Riley

Work & commute in Fort Riley, KS

Most working residents leave Fort Riley for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Manhattan (11%), Junction City (10%) and Wichita (10%). Half commute less than 98 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

14 of 843 working residents

Typical commute

98 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

8 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 829 Fort Riley residents head out of town to work, 14 work right here, and 229 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Fort Riley.

829live here, work elsewhere

14live and work here

229work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Fort Riley goes to work

Manhattan12.4 mi away

11%91

Junction City5.9 mi away

10%86

Wichita102.1 mi away

10%82

Overland Park114.9 mi away

7%59

Topeka60.1 mi away

4%34

Olathe108.1 mi away

4%32

Lawrence83.6 mi away

3%26

Lenexa108.2 mi away

3%23

Kansas City111 mi away

2%16

Leavenworth102.1 mi away

2%15

Everywhere elseother towns and states

45%379

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

How far

How far Fort Riley commutes

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

15%

13%

69%

15%Under 10 mi

13%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

69%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Fort Riley is a commuter town

0.29jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Fort Riley are

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

Jobs based in Fort Riley

243 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities8%

Services (health, schools, offices…)81%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month51%

Jobs Fort Riley residents hold

843 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities26%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month39%

−66%

Jobs based in Fort Riley, 2013 → 2023: 706 → 243. 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.