Work & commute · Wilroads Gardens

Work & commute in Wilroads Gardens, KS

Most working residents leave Wilroads Gardens for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Dodge City (44%), Dodge (24%) and Garden City (4%). Half commute less than 5 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

0 of 237 working residents

Typical commute

5 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 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 237 Wilroads Gardens residents head out of town to work, 0 work right here, and 36 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Wilroads Gardens.

237live here, work elsewhere

0live and work here

36work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Wilroads Gardens goes to work

Dodge City5.9 mi away

44%105

Dodge8.4 mi away

24%58

Garden City53.5 mi away

4%9

Wichita141 mi away

3%6

Topeka246.6 mi away

2%5

Cimarron23.8 mi away

2%4

Great Bend75.8 mi away

1%3

Cimarron20.5 mi away

1%3

Hays87 mi away

1%2

Liberal71.8 mi away

1%2

Everywhere elseother towns and states

17%40

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

How far

How far Wilroads Gardens commutes

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

72%

20%

72%Under 10 mi

6%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

20%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Wilroads Gardens is a commuter town

0.15jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Wilroads Gardens are

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

Jobs based in Wilroads Gardens

36 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)94%

Trade, transport & utilities0%

Services (health, schools, offices…)6%

$1,250 a month or less3%

$1,251–$3,333 a month47%

Over $3,333 a month50%

Jobs Wilroads Gardens residents hold

237 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)48%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)36%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month61%

+1100%

Jobs based in Wilroads Gardens, 2013 → 2023: 3 → 36. 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.