Work & commute · Garden

Work & commute in Garden, KS

Most working residents leave Garden for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Joplin (28%), Baxter Springs (9%) and Galena (8%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

49 of 1,126 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

19 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 1,077 Garden residents head out of town to work, 49 work right here, and 274 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Garden.

1,077live here, work elsewhere

49live and work here

274work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Garden goes to work

Joplin, MO10.4 mi away

28%316

Baxter Springs3.1 mi away

9%98

Galena3.6 mi away

8%90

Pittsburg25.7 mi away

6%67

Columbus12.6 mi away

3%32

Lowell4.3 mi away

2%25

Riverton2.5 mi away

2%24

Topeka148.3 mi away

2%23

Webb City, MO13.8 mi away

2%22

Fort Scott54.4 mi away

2%17

Everywhere elseother towns and states

37%412

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

How far

How far Garden commutes

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

42%

30%

22%

42%Under 10 mi

30%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

22%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Garden 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 Garden are

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

Jobs based in Garden

323 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities4%

Services (health, schools, offices…)90%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month55%

Jobs Garden residents hold

1,126 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)28%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month51%

+2%

Jobs based in Garden, 2013 → 2023: 317 → 323. 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.