Work & commute · Lyons

Work & commute in Lyons, KS

About one in 3 of Lyons’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Sterling (12%), Atlanta (6%) and Wichita (6%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

34%

485 of 1,429 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

18 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 944 Lyons residents head out of town to work, 485 work right here, and 656 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lyons.

944live here, work elsewhere

485live and work here

656work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Lyons goes to work

Lyons (in town)right here

34%485

Sterling9.5 mi away

12%165

Atlanta3.1 mi away

6%88

Wichita65.1 mi away

6%86

McPherson29.3 mi away

5%75

Hutchinson25.3 mi away

5%65

McPherson30.9 mi away

3%37

Harrison3.3 mi away

2%28

Little River10.9 mi away

2%22

Salina45.4 mi away

2%22

Everywhere elseother towns and states

25%356

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

How far

How far Lyons commutes

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

55%

18%

55%Under 10 mi

9%10–24 mi

18%25–50 mi

18%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Lyons is balanced between jobs and homes

0.80jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.80 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Lyons are

1,141 jobs are based in Lyons. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Lyons’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Lyons

1,141 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities12%

Services (health, schools, offices…)82%

$1,250 a month or less24%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month36%

Jobs Lyons residents hold

1,429 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)29%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month49%

−11%

Jobs based in Lyons, 2013 → 2023: 1,275 → 1,141. 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.