Work & commute · Mount Pleasant

Work & commute in Mount Pleasant, KS

Most working residents leave Mount Pleasant for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Parsons (32%), Altamont (8%) and Coffeyville (6%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

34 of 426 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 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 392 Mount Pleasant residents head out of town to work, 34 work right here, and 334 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Mount Pleasant.

392live here, work elsewhere

34live and work here

334work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Mount Pleasant goes to work

Parsons12 mi away

32%135

Altamont2.1 mi away

8%34

Coffeyville20.5 mi away

6%24

Pittsburg38.2 mi away

5%20

North13.4 mi away

4%17

Oswego11.4 mi away

4%16

Wichita117 mi away

3%11

Cherryvale14.7 mi away

2%10

Independence22.3 mi away

2%7

Topeka130.8 mi away

1%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

35%147

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

How far

How far Mount Pleasant commutes

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

26%

39%

15%

20%

26%Under 10 mi

39%10–24 mi

15%25–50 mi

20%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Mount Pleasant is balanced between jobs and homes

0.86jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.86 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Mount Pleasant are

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

Jobs based in Mount Pleasant

368 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)1%

Trade, transport & utilities11%

Services (health, schools, offices…)88%

$1,250 a month or less26%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month45%

Jobs Mount Pleasant residents hold

426 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)27%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month48%

−7%

Jobs based in Mount Pleasant, 2013 → 2023: 397 → 368. 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.