Work & commute · Ulysses

Work & commute in Ulysses, KS

41% of Ulysses’s working residents work right in town. The top destinations are Garden City (6%), Hugoton (5%) and Wichita (2%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

41%

953 of 2,340 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

35 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 1,387 Ulysses residents head out of town to work, 953 work right here, and 686 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Ulysses.

1,387live here, work elsewhere

953live and work here

686work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Ulysses goes to work

Ulysses (in town)right here

41%953

Garden City38.9 mi away

6%131

Hugoton27.8 mi away

5%107

Wichita219.3 mi away

2%55

Dodge City74.2 mi away

2%54

Johnson City21.4 mi away

2%52

Big Bow11.1 mi away

2%44

Liberal43.6 mi away

2%41

Dudley19 mi away

1%28

Haskell26.1 mi away

1%28

Everywhere elseother towns and states

36%847

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

How far

How far Ulysses commutes

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

51%

10%

20%

19%

51%Under 10 mi

10%10–24 mi

20%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Ulysses is a commuter town

0.70jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Ulysses are

1,639 jobs are based in Ulysses. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Ulysses’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Ulysses

1,639 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month45%

Jobs Ulysses residents hold

2,340 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)28%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)49%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month54%

−17%

Jobs based in Ulysses, 2013 → 2023: 1,976 → 1,639. 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.