Work & commute · Garden Plain

Work & commute in Garden Plain, KS

Most working residents leave Garden Plain for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Wichita (49%), Goddard (6%) and Waco (5%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

16 of 841 working residents

Typical commute

16 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 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 825 Garden Plain residents head out of town to work, 16 work right here, and 395 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Garden Plain.

825live here, work elsewhere

16live and work here

395work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Garden Plain goes to work

Wichita16.5 mi away

49%413

Goddard5.3 mi away

6%52

Waco13.3 mi away

5%42

Andale7.2 mi away

3%26

Maize12 mi away

3%25

Riverside21 mi away

3%25

Hutchinson29.5 mi away

2%18

Overland Park180.7 mi away

2%18

Cheney8 mi away

2%15

Grand River5.8 mi away

1%12

Everywhere elseother towns and states

23%195

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

How far

How far Garden Plain commutes

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

20%

62%

11%

20%Under 10 mi

62%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

11%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Garden Plain is a commuter town

0.49jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Garden Plain are

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

Jobs based in Garden Plain

411 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities66%

Services (health, schools, offices…)22%

$1,250 a month or less22%

$1,251–$3,333 a month45%

Over $3,333 a month33%

Jobs Garden Plain residents hold

841 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities13%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month19%

Over $3,333 a month63%

−26%

Jobs based in Garden Plain, 2013 → 2023: 555 → 411. 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.