Work & commute · Menoken

Work & commute in Menoken, KS

Most working residents leave Menoken for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Topeka (53%), Silver Lake (5%) and Soldier (4%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

21 of 760 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

23%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 739 Menoken residents head out of town to work, 21 work right here, and 943 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Menoken.

739live here, work elsewhere

21live and work here

943work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Menoken goes to work

Topeka8.1 mi away

53%399

Silver Lake5.2 mi away

5%35

Soldier6 mi away

4%33

Lawrence29.8 mi away

3%26

Overland Park60.5 mi away

3%22

St. Marys16.2 mi away

3%21

Menoken (in town)right here

3%21

Wichita131.5 mi away

2%13

Rossville9.6 mi away

2%12

Olathe54 mi away

2%12

Everywhere elseother towns and states

22%166

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

How far

How far Menoken commutes

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

60%

18%

16%

60%Under 10 mi

18%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

16%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Menoken is balanced between jobs and homes

1.27jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.27 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Menoken are

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

Jobs based in Menoken

964 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)51%

Trade, transport & utilities34%

Services (health, schools, offices…)15%

$1,250 a month or less7%

$1,251–$3,333 a month12%

Over $3,333 a month81%

Jobs Menoken residents hold

760 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month65%

−80%

Jobs based in Menoken, 2013 → 2023: 4,748 → 964. 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.