Photo: Ichabod · CC BY-SA 3.0Admire has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
Employers in Admire report 1 jobs for 88 working residents. Hardly any stay in Admire for work; outside it, Emporia is the main destination (38%, 17 miles). Working from home is the commute for 21% of workers (Kansas 12%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Admire
On a workday 88 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 1 people come in from elsewhere.
About 47 people are in Admire on a workday afternoon, 65% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Admire goes to work
Where Admire clocks in
38% of workers
6% of workers
6% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Most jobs in Admire are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Admire, 2013 → 2023: 2 → 1. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Admire’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 32 minutes each way, longer than most of Kansas
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Admire workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 67 commuters (the 21% who work from home are left out). Across Kansas: 85% drive alone, <1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Near or far: the trip to work from Admire
About 22% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Admire: questions
What is the median household income in Admire?
$56,094 (±$11,256) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,275 across Kansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Admire?
2.1%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Admire?
32 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Admire work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Emporia (38%, 17 mi), Topeka (6%, 35 mi), Kansas City (6%, 90 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Admire without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Admire, from the people who make the trip.
More of Admire
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.