Photo: Kaethesson · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer people are out of work in Cherryvale (1.7%) than in 88% of U.S. towns
Cherryvale grades C for jobs and income and D for walkability. Measured by household income, Cherryvale is behind 87% of U.S. towns. For 2% of workers, the job is at home (Kansas 12%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Cherryvale, in brief
Fewer than half of Cherryvale workers earn over $40,000 a year
44% of Cherryvale’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 18% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
Few Cherryvale workers work from home
Only 2% of workers work from home, against 12% across Kansas. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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 864 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Cherryvale’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Cherryvale is better than 26% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Cherryvale’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($50,288, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Cherryvale could be anywhere from D to C+.
In Cherryvale, 30% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
625 jobs are based in Cherryvale.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cherryvale, 2013 → 2023: 571 → 625. 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 Cherryvale’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 22 minutes each way, about the KS average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cherryvale workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 937 commuters (the 2% 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.
Who leaves Cherryvale for work, and who comes in
On a workday 696 residents head out to work, 168 work right here, and 457 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,900 people are in Cherryvale on a workday afternoon, 11% fewer than live here.
0.72 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
13% of working residents work in Parsons
Where Cherryvale clocks in
13% of workers
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.
Where in the region Cherryvale works
About 23% 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.
Few in Cherryvale walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cherryvale is more walkable than 13% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.4% across Kansas.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 959 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). 0.5% of Cherryvale households have no vehicle (Kansas 5.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cherryvale’s commuters take a bus or train.
Cherryvale next to U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,800: 3,485th of 5,148 on jobs and income
| # | 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 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 39 | Oxford Township KS | 2,058 | $163K | 1.9% | 2.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 45 | Lexington Township KS | 1,512 | $135K | 0.0% | 2.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 61 | Westwood KS | 1,720 | $118K | 1.9% | 2.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,483 | Lower Mifflin Township PA | 1,795 | $61K | 16.7% | 4.4% | 1% | C |
| 3,484 | Rockdale IL | 1,969 | $59K | 25.8% | 8.7% | 3% | C |
| 3,485 | Cherryvale KS | 2,093 | $50K | 21.0% | 1.7% | 19% | C |
| 3,486 | West Liberty OH | 1,756 | $52K | 11.2% | 2.1% | 5% | C |
| 3,487 | Varick NY | 1,635 | $80K | 17.6% | 6.1% | 2% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,148 | 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 Cherryvale, 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 Cherryvale: questions
What is the median household income in Cherryvale?
$50,288 (±$11,211) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,275 across Kansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cherryvale?
21.0%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cherryvale?
22 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cherryvale work?
19% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Parsons (13%, 16 mi), Independence (12%, 9 mi), Coffeyville (7%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cherryvale walkable?
Cherryvale is more walkable than 13% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cherryvale 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 Cherryvale, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cherryvale
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.