Gray County Courthouse (Old) · Photo: Ammodramus · CC0Unemployment in Cimarron (3.4%) is lower than in 63% of U.S. towns
Cimarron grades C+ for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. About one in five work in Cimarron; the top destination outside it is Dodge City (15%, 18 miles). For 5% of workers, the job is at home; Kansas has 12%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Cimarron stands out on work
What’s behind Cimarron’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Cimarron is better than 37% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Cimarron’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 20% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Cimarron could be anywhere from D to A−.
Where the trip to work from Cimarron ends
Where Cimarron clocks in
15% of workers
9% 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.
Cimarron on a workday afternoon
On a workday 532 residents head out to work, 148 work right here, and 528 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 (0.99 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.
What Cimarron’s employers do
676 jobs are based in Cimarron.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cimarron, 2013 → 2023: 617 → 676. 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 Cimarron’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 19 minutes from Cimarron
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cimarron workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 982 commuters (the 5% 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 far Cimarron goes to work
About 24% 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 Cimarron: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cimarron is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,035 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). 1.3% of Cimarron households have no vehicle (Kansas 5.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cimarron’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Cimarron is 2,776th of 5,234 U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,600
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 41 | Oxford Township KS | 2,058 | $163K | 1.9% | 2.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 47 | Lexington Township KS | 1,512 | $135K | 0.0% | 2.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 66 | Westwood KS | 1,720 | $118K | 1.9% | 2.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,774 | Walls MS | 1,420 | $59K | 16.2% | 1.0% | <1% | C+ |
| 2,775 | Columbus Grove OH | 2,132 | $69K | 10.7% | 3.2% | 10% | C+ |
| 2,776 | Cimarron KS | 1,935 | $82K | 16.5% | 3.4% | 22% | C+ |
| 2,777 | Morenci MI | 2,218 | $60K | 13.2% | 2.6% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,778 | Winfield MO | 1,660 | $76K | 18.0% | 2.0% | 5% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,234 | 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 Cimarron, 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 Cimarron: questions
What is the median household income in Cimarron?
$82,422 (±$9,040) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,275 across Kansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cimarron?
16.5%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cimarron?
19 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cimarron work?
22% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dodge City (15%, 18 mi), Garden City (9%, 30 mi), Logan Township (5%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cimarron walkable?
Cimarron is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cimarron without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cimarron, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cimarron
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.