Work & commute · Riverside

Work & commute in Riverside, KS

Most working residents leave Riverside for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Wichita (55%), Derby (7%) and Haysville (4%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

486 of 5,671 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 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 5,185 Riverside residents head out of town to work, 486 work right here, and 12,021 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Riverside.

5,185live here, work elsewhere

486live and work here

12,021work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Riverside goes to work

Wichita7.8 mi away

55%3,096

Derby2.6 mi away

7%385

Riverside (in town)right here

6%354

Haysville3.8 mi away

4%231

Waco8 mi away

4%224

Overland Park167.3 mi away

2%97

Topeka132.2 mi away

1%61

Hutchinson47.2 mi away

1%59

Park City15.4 mi away

1%55

Andover11 mi away

1%53

Everywhere elseother towns and states

19%1,056

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

How far

How far Riverside commutes

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

63%

20%

12%

63%Under 10 mi

20%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

12%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Riverside is a job hub

2.21jobs per working resident

A job hub

2.2 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Riverside are

12,507 jobs are based in Riverside. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Riverside’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Riverside

12,507 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)82%

Trade, transport & utilities9%

Services (health, schools, offices…)9%

$1,250 a month or less5%

$1,251–$3,333 a month12%

Over $3,333 a month84%

Jobs Riverside residents hold

5,671 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)27%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month52%

−26%

Jobs based in Riverside, 2013 → 2023: 16,898 → 12,507. 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.