Work & commute · Green Garden

Work & commute in Green Garden, KS

Most working residents leave Green Garden for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Ellsworth (25%), Salina (16%) and Holyrood (4%). Half commute less than 35 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

6 of 89 working residents

Typical commute

35 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

28%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 83 Green Garden residents head out of town to work, 6 work right here, and 255 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Green Garden.

83live here, work elsewhere

6live and work here

255work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Green Garden goes to work

Ellsworth13.2 mi away

25%22

Salina42 mi away

16%14

Holyrood5.2 mi away

4%4

Wichita80 mi away

4%4

Lorraine0.8 mi away

3%3

Green Garden (in town)right here

3%3

Sterling24.9 mi away

2%2

Lyons15.9 mi away

2%2

Hutchinson40.8 mi away

2%2

Manhattan102 mi away

2%2

Everywhere elseother towns and states

35%31

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

How far

How far Green Garden commutes

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

11%

36%

29%

24%

11%Under 10 mi

36%10–24 mi

29%25–50 mi

24%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Green Garden is a job hub

2.93jobs per working resident

A job hub

2.9 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Green Garden are

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

Jobs based in Green Garden

261 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities33%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month58%

Jobs Green Garden residents hold

89 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)28%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)55%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month53%

+18%

Jobs based in Green Garden, 2013 → 2023: 221 → 261. 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.