Work & commute · Delight

Work & commute in Delight, NE

Most working residents leave Delight for work: only 16% work in town. The top destinations are Broken Bow (23%), Callaway (12%) and Arnold (8%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

16%

46 of 280 working residents

Typical commute

17 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

12 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 234 Delight residents head out of town to work, 46 work right here, and 248 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Delight.

234live here, work elsewhere

46live and work here

248work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Delight goes to work

Broken Bow20 mi away

23%64

Callaway3.6 mi away

12%33

Arnold16.6 mi away

8%21

Broken Bow21.1 mi away

7%19

Lincoln174.3 mi away

5%15

Delight (in town)right here

5%13

Omaha203.3 mi away

4%10

Kearney59.9 mi away

2%6

Grand Island86.9 mi away

2%5

Cliff16.3 mi away

2%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

32%89

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

How far

How far Delight commutes

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

19%

45%

27%

19%Under 10 mi

45%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

27%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Delight is balanced between jobs and homes

1.05jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.05 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Delight are

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

Jobs based in Delight

294 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)77%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month50%

Jobs Delight residents hold

280 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month52%

+62%

Jobs based in Delight, 2013 → 2023: 181 → 294. 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.