Work & commute · Crawford

Work & commute in Crawford, NE

Most working residents leave Crawford for work: only 13% work in town. The top destinations are Chadron (39%), O'Neill (4%) and Scottsbluff (4%). Half commute less than 23 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

13%

41 of 322 working residents

Typical commute

23 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 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 281 Crawford residents head out of town to work, 41 work right here, and 225 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Crawford.

281live here, work elsewhere

41live and work here

225work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Crawford goes to work

Chadron23.1 mi away

39%125

Crawford (in town)right here

13%41

O'Neill243.1 mi away

4%12

Scottsbluff57.8 mi away

4%12

Omaha390.6 mi away

3%10

Alliance48.7 mi away

2%8

Hemingford30.5 mi away

2%6

Gering60.6 mi away

2%5

Lincoln370.7 mi away

2%5

Sidney109.6 mi away

1%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

29%94

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

How far

How far Crawford commutes

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

17%

43%

11%

29%

17%Under 10 mi

43%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

29%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Crawford is balanced between jobs and homes

0.83jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.83 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Crawford are

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

Jobs based in Crawford

266 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)0%

Trade, transport & utilities28%

Services (health, schools, offices…)71%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month41%

Over $3,333 a month36%

Jobs Crawford residents hold

322 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month53%

−14%

Jobs based in Crawford, 2013 → 2023: 308 → 266. 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.