Photo: Halisdarkstone · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Anthony earn less than those in 87% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 21.1% of residents; Kansas has 11.3%. Anthony grades D− for jobs and income and B for walkability. 3% of workers work from home, against 12% across Kansas.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Anthony
Anthony’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Anthony is Wichita, 53 miles away as the crow flies. 12% of working residents (107) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Fewer than half of Anthony workers earn over $40,000 a year
43% of Anthony’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 20% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Anthony are quick
The average trip to work takes 14 minutes, against 20 across Kansas. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Kansas worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 918 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Anthony gets the Jobs & income grade it does
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Anthony’s grade.
Unemployment (3.9%) is left out: Anthony’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Anthony could be anywhere from D− to D.
How far it is to work from Anthony
About 29% 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.
The kinds of work in Anthony
997 jobs are based in Anthony.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Anthony, 2013 → 2023: 1,294 → 997. 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 Anthony’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 14 minutes each way for Anthony’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Anthony workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 882 commuters (the 3% 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.
How a workday changes Anthony
On a workday 552 residents head out to work, 366 work right here, and 631 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.09 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
12% of working residents work in Wichita
Where Anthony clocks in
12% of workers
7% 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 trips from Anthony start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Anthony is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Anthony near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 913 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.2% of Anthony households have no vehicle (Kansas 5.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Anthony’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700, and where Anthony sits
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Oxford Township KS | 2,058 | $163K | 1.9% | 2.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 52 | Lexington Township KS | 1,512 | $135K | 0.0% | 2.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 71 | Westwood KS | 1,720 | $118K | 1.9% | 2.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,228 | Ashland AL | 1,952 | $42K | 25.0% | 0.0% | 31% | D− |
| 5,229 | Kellogg ID | 2,456 | $51K | 19.2% | 10.8% | 30% | D− |
| 5,230 | Anthony KS | 2,034 | $51K | 21.1% | 3.9% | 40% | D− |
| 5,231 | Polkton NC | 1,722 | $47K | 30.4% | 2.5% | 2% | D− |
| 5,232 | Stratford OK | 1,437 | $41K | 26.5% | 7.1% | 10% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Anthony, the top three, the last and three more from Kansas.
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 Anthony: questions
What is the median household income in Anthony?
$50,598 (±$11,871) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,275 across Kansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Anthony?
21.1%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Anthony?
14 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Anthony work?
40% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wichita (12%, 53 mi), Harper (7%, 9 mi), Township 5 (4%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Anthony walkable?
Anthony is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Anthony without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Anthony, from the people who make the trip.
More of Anthony
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.