Households in Caney earn less than those in 96% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 17.4% of residents; Kansas has 11.3%. The two grades for Caney are D for jobs and income and B for walkability. Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, next to 12% for Kansas as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Caney
Caney makes and builds things
54% of the jobs based in Caney are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Caney residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 30%. The jobs ↓
Caney workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 30 minutes each way, against 20 across Kansas. Over a year that’s about 230 hours of commuting, 77 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Fewer than half of Caney workers earn over $40,000 a year
38% of Caney’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 23% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
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 567 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Caney’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Caney is better than 6% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Caney’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($39,000, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (6.9%) is left out: Caney’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, Caney could be anywhere from D− to C−.
Goods jobs make up 54% of work in Caney
803 jobs are based in Caney.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Caney, 2013 → 2023: 849 → 803. 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 Caney’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Caney: about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Caney workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 444 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.
The daily commute in and out of Caney
On a workday 398 residents head out to work, 169 work right here, and 634 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,900 people are in Caney on a workday afternoon, 14% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.42 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.
14% of working residents work in Coffeyville
Where Caney clocks in
14% of workers
10% of workers
4% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Caney
About 31% 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.
Getting around Caney: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Caney is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, the same share as across Kansas, on an EPA index of 6.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 444 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). 3.4% of Caney households have no vehicle (Kansas 5.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Caney’s commuters take a bus or train.
5,178th of 5,760: where Caney ranks among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 47 | Oxford Township KS | 2,058 | $163K | 1.9% | 2.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 53 | Lexington Township KS | 1,512 | $135K | 0.0% | 2.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 73 | Westwood KS | 1,720 | $118K | 1.9% | 2.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,176 | Angustura NM | 1,997 | $54K | 26.3% | 2.7% | 1% | D |
| 5,177 | Monon IN | 1,957 | $49K | 23.7% | 4.8% | 13% | D |
| 5,178 | Caney KS | 1,704 | $39K | 17.4% | 6.9% | 30% | D |
| 5,179 | Willow Springs MO | 2,211 | $41K | 20.5% | 6.0% | 20% | D |
| 5,180 | Johnsonville SC | 1,348 | $45K | 20.9% | 9.1% | 12% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Caney, 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 Caney: questions
What is the median household income in Caney?
$39,000 (±$18,925) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,275 across Kansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Caney?
17.4%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Caney?
30 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Caney work?
30% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Coffeyville (14%, 16 mi), Independence (10%, 19 mi), Wichita (4%, 91 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Caney walkable?
Caney is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Caney without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Caney, from the people who make the trip.
More of Caney
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.