Work & commute · Healy

Work & commute in Healy, KS

Most working residents leave Healy for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Dighton (36%), Scott City (6%) and Wilson (5%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

6 of 64 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

14 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 58 Healy residents head out of town to work, 6 work right here, and 63 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Healy.

58live here, work elsewhere

6live and work here

63work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Healy goes to work

Dighton11.7 mi away

36%23

Healy (in town)right here

9%6

Scott City17.7 mi away

6%4

Wilson8.2 mi away

5%3

Garden City45.1 mi away

3%2

Olathe313 mi away

3%2

Dighton14 mi away

3%2

Greenwood Village, CO240.6 mi away

2%1

Ford81.6 mi away

2%1

Plainville83.1 mi away

2%1

Everywhere elseother towns and states

30%19

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

How far

How far Healy commutes

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

16%

45%

30%

16%Under 10 mi

45%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

30%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Healy is balanced between jobs and homes

1.08jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.08 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Healy are

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

Jobs based in Healy

69 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities46%

Services (health, schools, offices…)45%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month64%

Jobs Healy residents hold

64 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less22%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month50%

−23%

Jobs based in Healy, 2013 → 2023: 90 → 69. 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.