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Work & commute · Little Walnut

Work & commute in Little Walnut, KS

Most working residents leave Little Walnut for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are El Dorado (24%), Wichita (18%) and Leon (8%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
8%
23 of 276 working residents
Typical commute
19 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
31 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
6%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 253 Little Walnut residents head out of town to work, 23 work right here, and 216 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Little Walnut.

253live here, work elsewhere
23live and work here
216work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Little Walnut goes to work

LeonAugustaMulvaneEl DoradoWinfieldDerbyWichitaOverland ParkTopekaKansas CityProspectRosaliaSpringEl DoradoWalnutLittle WalnutGlencoeLoganEl DoradoWichitaLeonEl DoradoOverland ParkProspectTopekaKansas CityGlencoeAugustaLittle Walnut
1
El Dorado10.4 mi away
24%67
2
Wichita31.6 mi away
18%50
3
Leon0.7 mi away
8%21
4
El Dorado9.9 mi away
4%10
5
Overland Park140.1 mi away
3%9
6
Prospect10 mi away
3%9
7
Topeka109.8 mi away
2%6
8
Kansas City148 mi away
2%5
9
Glencoe8.6 mi away
2%5
10
Augusta11.1 mi away
1%4
Everywhere elseother towns and states
33%90

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

How far

How far Little Walnut commutes

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

34%Under 10 mi
19%10–24 mi
26%25–50 mi
21%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Little Walnut is balanced between jobs and homes

0.87jobs per working resident
Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.87 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Little Walnut are

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

Jobs based in Little Walnut

239 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)3%
Trade, transport & utilities30%
Services (health, schools, offices…)67%
$1,250 a month or less20%
$1,251–$3,333 a month30%
Over $3,333 a month50%

Jobs Little Walnut residents hold

276 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)30%
Trade, transport & utilities19%
Services (health, schools, offices…)51%
$1,250 a month or less17%
$1,251–$3,333 a month29%
Over $3,333 a month55%
−66%

Jobs based in Little Walnut, 2013 → 2023: 697 → 239. 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.

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