Work & commute · St. Marys

Work & commute in St. Marys, KS

About one in 3 of St. Marys’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Belvue (13%), Topeka (12%) and St. Marys (5%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

29%

309 of 1,066 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

16 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 757 St. Marys residents head out of town to work, 309 work right here, and 920 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Marys.

757live here, work elsewhere

309live and work here

920work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Marys goes to work

St. Marys (in town)right here

29%309

Belvue6.3 mi away

13%135

Topeka22.6 mi away

12%133

St. Marys2.3 mi away

5%58

Manhattan29 mi away

5%51

Wamego13.2 mi away

4%44

Emmett8 mi away

2%25

Wichita125.1 mi away

2%18

Lawrence45.8 mi away

1%15

Overland Park76.7 mi away

1%15

Everywhere elseother towns and states

25%263

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

How far

How far St. Marys commutes

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

51%

23%

11%

15%

51%Under 10 mi

23%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

15%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Marys is balanced between jobs and homes

1.15jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.15 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Marys are

1,229 jobs are based in St. Marys. Here is what they are, next to the jobs St. Marys’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in St. Marys

1,229 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)37%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)47%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month43%

Jobs St. Marys residents hold

1,066 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)37%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)46%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month54%

+39%

Jobs based in St. Marys, 2013 → 2023: 883 → 1,229. 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.