Agenda has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Hardly any work in Agenda; the top destination outside it is Belleville (38%, 13 miles). 3 jobs are based in Agenda for 16 working residents. Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, next to 12% for Kansas as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Agenda on a workday afternoon
On a workday 16 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 3 people come in from elsewhere.
About 33 people are in Agenda on a workday afternoon, 28% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where people from Agenda work
Where Agenda clocks in
38% of workers
13% 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.
What Agenda’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Agenda, 2014 → 2024: 17 → 3. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Agenda’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 49 minutes in Agenda
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 15.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Agenda workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 50 commuters (the 0% 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 Agenda
About 25% 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 2024.
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 2024, 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 Agenda: questions
What is the median household income in Agenda?
$26,389 (±$15,705) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,275 across Kansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Agenda?
16.7%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Agenda?
49 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Agenda work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Belleville (38%, 13 mi), Beloit (13%, 40 mi), Concordia (13%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Agenda without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 27% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Agenda, from the people who make the trip.
More of Agenda
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.