Work & commute · High Prairie

Work & commute in High Prairie, KS

Most working residents leave High Prairie for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Leavenworth (26%), Kansas City (9%) and Kansas City (7%). Half commute less than 21 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

19 of 860 working residents

Typical commute

21 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 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 841 High Prairie residents head out of town to work, 19 work right here, and 136 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in High Prairie.

841live here, work elsewhere

19live and work here

136work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where High Prairie goes to work

Leavenworth6.7 mi away

26%222

Kansas City17.4 mi away

9%77

Kansas City, MO26.5 mi away

7%61

Overland Park30.8 mi away

6%54

Lansing6.4 mi away

5%46

Topeka39.5 mi away

5%42

Lawrence24.5 mi away

4%31

Lenexa23.1 mi away

3%30

Olathe27.9 mi away

3%25

High Prairie (in town)right here

2%19

Everywhere elseother towns and states

29%253

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

How far

How far High Prairie commutes

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

37%

27%

28%

37%Under 10 mi

27%10–24 mi

28%25–50 mi

8%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

High Prairie is a commuter town

0.18jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in High Prairie are

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

Jobs based in High Prairie

155 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)49%

Trade, transport & utilities6%

Services (health, schools, offices…)45%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month61%

Jobs High Prairie residents hold

860 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month19%

Over $3,333 a month65%

+53%

Jobs based in High Prairie, 2013 → 2023: 101 → 155. 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.