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Work & commute · Lone Tree

Work & commute in Lone Tree, NE

Most working residents leave Lone Tree for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Central City (24%), Grand Island (20%) and Columbus (5%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
3%
7 of 275 working residents
Typical commute
20 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
16 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
4%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 268 Lone Tree residents head out of town to work, 7 work right here, and 124 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lone Tree.

268live here, work elsewhere
7live and work here
124work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Lone Tree goes to work

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1
Central City1.6 mi away
24%66
2
Grand Island21.7 mi away
20%54
3
Columbus41.4 mi away
5%14
4
Lincoln73.9 mi away
5%14
5
Hastings40.5 mi away
4%10
6
Kearney61.9 mi away
3%8
7
Aurora17.4 mi away
3%7
8
Lone Tree (in town)right here
3%7
9
Palmer14 mi away
2%5
10
York28.5 mi away
2%5
Everywhere elseother towns and states
31%85

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

How far

How far Lone Tree commutes

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

31%Under 10 mi
30%10–24 mi
22%25–50 mi
17%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Lone Tree is a commuter town

0.48jobs per working resident
A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Lone Tree are

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

Jobs based in Lone Tree

131 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)47%
Trade, transport & utilities8%
Services (health, schools, offices…)45%
$1,250 a month or less30%
$1,251–$3,333 a month30%
Over $3,333 a month40%

Jobs Lone Tree residents hold

275 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)26%
Trade, transport & utilities24%
Services (health, schools, offices…)51%
$1,250 a month or less18%
$1,251–$3,333 a month28%
Over $3,333 a month53%
−7%

Jobs based in Lone Tree, 2013 → 2023: 141 → 131. 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.

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