Blue Mound has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
28 jobs are based in Blue Mound, and 90 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any stay in Blue Mound for work; outside it, Pleasanton is the main destination (10%, 18 miles). The average commute takes 43 minutes each way, where Kansas has 20 and the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Blue Mound for work, and who comes in
On a workday 90 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 28 people come in from elsewhere.
About 160 people are in Blue Mound 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 Blue Mound goes to work
Where Blue Mound clocks in
8% 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.
In Blue Mound, 36% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Blue Mound, 2014 → 2024: 47 → 28. 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 Blue Mound’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 43 minutes each way, longer than most of Kansas
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Blue Mound workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 61 commuters (the 12% 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.
The distance from Blue Mound to work
About 36% 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 Blue Mound: questions
What is the median household income in Blue Mound?
$60,625 (±$41,755) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,275 across Kansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Blue Mound?
30.8%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Blue Mound?
43 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Blue Mound work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Pleasanton (10%, 18 mi), Mound City (8%, 7 mi), Potosi Township (6%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Blue Mound without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Blue Mound, from the people who make the trip.
More of Blue Mound
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.