Work & commute · Protection

Work & commute in Protection, KS

Most working residents leave Protection for work: only 17% work in town. The top destinations are Coldwater (40%), Protection (16%) and Ashland (5%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

17%

44 of 260 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

17 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 216 Protection residents head out of town to work, 44 work right here, and 124 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Protection.

216live here, work elsewhere

44live and work here

124work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Protection goes to work

Coldwater11.5 mi away

40%104

Protection2.5 mi away

16%42

Ashland15.6 mi away

5%13

Minneola34.7 mi away

3%7

Wichita122.8 mi away

2%5

Topeka243.2 mi away

2%5

Pratt54.1 mi away

2%4

Salina152.9 mi away

2%4

Hays119 mi away

1%3

Great Bend90.6 mi away

1%3

Everywhere elseother towns and states

27%70

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

How far

How far Protection commutes

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

42%

21%

27%

42%Under 10 mi

21%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

27%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Protection is a commuter town

0.65jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.65 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Protection are

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

Jobs based in Protection

168 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)26%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less22%

$1,251–$3,333 a month42%

Over $3,333 a month36%

Jobs Protection residents hold

260 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month45%

−9%

Jobs based in Protection, 2013 → 2023: 184 → 168. 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.