Work & commute · St. Francis

Work & commute in St. Francis, KS

40% of St. Francis’s working residents work right in town. The top destinations are Bird City (7%), Wano (7%) and Goodland (5%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

40%

182 of 455 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

10 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 273 St. Francis residents head out of town to work, 182 work right here, and 275 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Francis.

273live here, work elsewhere

182live and work here

275work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Francis goes to work

St. Francis (in town)right here

40%182

Bird City14.4 mi away

7%32

Wano3.1 mi away

7%32

Goodland29.6 mi away

5%21

Wichita279.8 mi away

3%14

Hays146.1 mi away

2%10

Atwood40.4 mi away

2%8

Orlando5.9 mi away

2%8

Bird City15.3 mi away

2%7

Garden City134.2 mi away

1%6

Everywhere elseother towns and states

30%135

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

How far

How far St. Francis commutes

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

49%

11%

10%

30%

49%Under 10 mi

11%10–24 mi

10%25–50 mi

30%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Francis 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 St. Francis are

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

Jobs based in St. Francis

457 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)80%

$1,250 a month or less24%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month40%

Jobs St. Francis residents hold

455 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less22%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month42%

−8%

Jobs based in St. Francis, 2013 → 2023: 496 → 457. 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.