Work & commute · Rush Center

Work & commute in Rush Center, KS

Most working residents leave Rush Center for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are La Crosse (20%), Hays (11%) and Great Bend (9%). Half commute less than 28 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

1 of 44 working residents

Typical commute

28 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 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 43 Rush Center residents head out of town to work, 1 work right here, and 43 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Rush Center.

43live here, work elsewhere

1live and work here

43work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Rush Center goes to work

La Crosse4.6 mi away

20%9

Hays28.8 mi away

11%5

Great Bend28.7 mi away

9%4

Ness City32.1 mi away

7%3

La Crosse-Brookdale5.7 mi away

7%3

Albert16.2 mi away

5%2

McCracken16.1 mi away

5%2

Liberal131.9 mi away

5%2

Rush Center (in town)right here

2%1

Sterling62.4 mi away

2%1

Everywhere elseother towns and states

27%12

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

How far

How far Rush Center commutes

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

30%

14%

30%

27%

30%Under 10 mi

14%10–24 mi

30%25–50 mi

27%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Rush Center is balanced between jobs and homes

1.00jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.00 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Rush Center are

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

Jobs based in Rush Center

44 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)0%

Trade, transport & utilities11%

Services (health, schools, offices…)89%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month57%

Jobs Rush Center residents hold

44 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities32%

Services (health, schools, offices…)55%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month39%

Over $3,333 a month41%

+10%

Jobs based in Rush Center, 2013 → 2023: 40 → 44. 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.