Work & commute · Stranger

Work & commute in Stranger, KS

Most working residents leave Stranger for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Kansas City (13%), Overland Park (10%) and Kansas City (9%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

45 of 2,679 working residents

Typical commute

20 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

31 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

10%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 2,634 Stranger residents head out of town to work, 45 work right here, and 392 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Stranger.

2,634live here, work elsewhere

45live and work here

392work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Stranger goes to work

Kansas City15 mi away

13%359

Overland Park24.2 mi away

10%257

Kansas City, MO25.3 mi away

9%231

Tonganoxie3.3 mi away

8%225

Lenexa16.1 mi away

7%180

Lawrence17.4 mi away

6%173

Leavenworth14.6 mi away

5%139

Olathe20 mi away

5%126

Topeka36.7 mi away

5%123

Shawnee13.8 mi away

4%103

Everywhere elseother towns and states

28%763

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

How far

How far Stranger commutes

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

17%

58%

18%

17%Under 10 mi

58%10–24 mi

18%25–50 mi

6%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Stranger is a commuter town

0.16jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Stranger are

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

Jobs based in Stranger

437 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)54%

Trade, transport & utilities11%

Services (health, schools, offices…)36%

$1,250 a month or less8%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month69%

Jobs Stranger residents hold

2,679 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month65%

+89%

Jobs based in Stranger, 2013 → 2023: 231 → 437. 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.