Work & commute · Mound

Work & commute in Mound, KS

Most working residents leave Mound for work: only 12% work in town. The top destinations are Potosi (8%), Pleasanton (7%) and Arkansas City (5%). Half commute less than 32 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

12%

33 of 276 working residents

Typical commute

32 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

33 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 243 Mound residents head out of town to work, 33 work right here, and 260 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mound.

243live here, work elsewhere

33live and work here

260work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mound goes to work

Mound City (in town)right here

12%33

Potosi7.8 mi away

8%23

Pleasanton6.8 mi away

7%19

Arkansas City141.9 mi away

5%14

Fort Scott22.4 mi away

5%13

Paola30.4 mi away

4%10

Wichita141.2 mi away

4%10

Lenexa57.1 mi away

3%8

Overland Park52.3 mi away

3%8

Olathe51.3 mi away

3%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

47%130

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

How far

How far Mound commutes

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

31%

23%

37%

31%Under 10 mi

9%10–24 mi

23%25–50 mi

37%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mound is balanced between jobs and homes

1.06jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.06 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Mound are

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

Jobs based in Mound

293 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)3%

Trade, transport & utilities29%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less28%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month37%

Jobs Mound residents hold

276 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month53%

−10%

Jobs based in Mound, 2013 → 2023: 325 → 293. 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.