Work & commute · Adams

Work & commute in Adams, NE

Most working residents leave Adams for work: only 13% work in town. The top destinations are Lincoln (28%), Beatrice (16%) and Adams (9%). Half commute less than 23 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

13%

60 of 474 working residents

Typical commute

23 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

11%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 414 Adams residents head out of town to work, 60 work right here, and 289 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Adams.

414live here, work elsewhere

60live and work here

289work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Adams goes to work

Lincoln23.9 mi away

28%133

Beatrice19.2 mi away

16%76

Adams1.9 mi away

9%43

Omaha58.7 mi away

7%35

Adams (in town)right here

4%17

Columbus79.2 mi away

2%8

Tecumseh18.7 mi away

1%6

Crete25.1 mi away

1%6

Hooker7 mi away

1%6

Friend42.1 mi away

1%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

30%140

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

How far

How far Adams commutes

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

17%

39%

22%

17%Under 10 mi

39%10–24 mi

22%25–50 mi

22%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Adams is a commuter town

0.74jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Adams are

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

Jobs based in Adams

349 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)30%

Trade, transport & utilities9%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month52%

Jobs Adams residents hold

474 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month62%

+12%

Jobs based in Adams, 2013 → 2023: 313 → 349. 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.