Work & commute · Sublette

Work & commute in Sublette, KS

Most working residents leave Sublette for work: only 16% work in town. The top destinations are Haskell (17%), Satanta (8%) and Dudley (8%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

16%

68 of 434 working residents

Typical commute

16 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 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 366 Sublette residents head out of town to work, 68 work right here, and 319 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Sublette.

366live here, work elsewhere

68live and work here

319work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Sublette goes to work

Haskell5.4 mi away

17%74

Sublette (in town)right here

16%68

Satanta8.3 mi away

8%35

Dudley10.6 mi away

8%35

Wichita192.1 mi away

6%24

Liberal30.5 mi away

3%13

Garden City34.1 mi away

3%11

Montezuma23 mi away

2%10

Lockport8.5 mi away

2%10

Garden City38.4 mi away

2%9

Everywhere elseother towns and states

33%145

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

How far

How far Sublette commutes

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

34%

22%

14%

29%

34%Under 10 mi

22%10–24 mi

14%25–50 mi

29%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Sublette is balanced between jobs and homes

0.89jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.89 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Sublette are

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

Jobs based in Sublette

387 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less22%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month55%

Jobs Sublette residents hold

434 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)29%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)49%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month54%

−35%

Jobs based in Sublette, 2013 → 2023: 594 → 387. 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.