Work & commute · Guide Rock

Work & commute in Guide Rock, NE

Most working residents leave Guide Rock for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Red Cloud (40%), Hastings (9%) and Lincoln (4%). Half commute less than 15 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

2 of 78 working residents

Typical commute

15 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

35 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 76 Guide Rock residents head out of town to work, 2 work right here, and 21 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Guide Rock.

76live here, work elsewhere

2live and work here

21work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Guide Rock goes to work

Red Cloud10.3 mi away

40%31

Hastings36.2 mi away

9%7

Lincoln100.8 mi away

4%3

Omaha144.8 mi away

4%3

Guide Rock (in town)right here

3%2

Superior14.6 mi away

3%2

Grand Island58.6 mi away

3%2

Holstein31.9 mi away

1%1

Blue Hill19 mi away

1%1

Elm Creek70.9 mi away

1%1

Everywhere elseother towns and states

32%25

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

How far

How far Guide Rock commutes

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

27%

18%

28%

27%Under 10 mi

27%10–24 mi

18%25–50 mi

28%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Guide Rock is a commuter town

0.29jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Guide Rock are

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

Jobs based in Guide Rock

23 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)0%

Trade, transport & utilities30%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less30%

$1,251–$3,333 a month39%

Over $3,333 a month30%

Jobs Guide Rock residents hold

78 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less27%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month38%

−23%

Jobs based in Guide Rock, 2013 → 2023: 30 → 23. 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.