Work & commute · Chambers

Work & commute in Chambers, NE

Most working residents leave Chambers for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Ewing (17%), O'Neill (11%) and Atkinson (10%). Half commute less than 25 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

5 of 63 working residents

Typical commute

25 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

19%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 58 Chambers residents head out of town to work, 5 work right here, and 82 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Chambers.

58live here, work elsewhere

5live and work here

82work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Chambers goes to work

Ewing21 mi away

17%11

O'Neill18.5 mi away

11%7

Atkinson25.3 mi away

10%6

Chambers (in town)right here

8%5

Stuart33.9 mi away

5%3

Atkinson29 mi away

5%3

Valentine102.6 mi away

3%2

Gothenburg114.5 mi away

3%2

Omaha153.4 mi away

3%2

Page21.6 mi away

2%1

Everywhere elseother towns and states

33%21

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

How far

How far Chambers commutes

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

11%

40%

16%

33%

11%Under 10 mi

40%10–24 mi

16%25–50 mi

33%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Chambers is balanced between jobs and homes

1.38jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.38 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Chambers are

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

Jobs based in Chambers

87 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)3%

Trade, transport & utilities29%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less25%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month44%

Jobs Chambers residents hold

63 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month56%

+32%

Jobs based in Chambers, 2013 → 2023: 66 → 87. 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.