Work & commute · Valley Falls

Work & commute in Valley Falls, KS

Most working residents leave Valley Falls for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Topeka (17%), Winchester (6%) and Leavenworth (6%). Half commute less than 24 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

46 of 516 working residents

Typical commute

24 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

13%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 470 Valley Falls residents head out of town to work, 46 work right here, and 277 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Valley Falls.

470live here, work elsewhere

46live and work here

277work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Valley Falls goes to work

Topeka24.5 mi away

17%89

Valley Falls (in town)right here

9%46

Winchester10.3 mi away

6%31

Leavenworth28.7 mi away

6%30

Lawrence28.3 mi away

5%28

Atchison23.2 mi away

5%25

Oskaloosa11.6 mi away

3%17

Overland Park51.7 mi away

3%17

Kansas City, MO50.9 mi away

3%16

Lecompton21 mi away

3%13

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%204

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

How far

How far Valley Falls commutes

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

14%

37%

33%

15%

14%Under 10 mi

37%10–24 mi

33%25–50 mi

15%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Valley Falls is a commuter town

0.63jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Valley Falls are

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

Jobs based in Valley Falls

323 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less31%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month39%

Jobs Valley Falls residents hold

516 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month55%

+19%

Jobs based in Valley Falls, 2013 → 2023: 271 → 323. 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.