Clyde School · Photo: SharonPapierdreams · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Clyde commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
There are 144 jobs in Clyde, and 288 of its residents work somewhere. Only 4% work in Clyde itself; outside it, Concordia draws the most (18%, 13 miles). Working from home is the commute for 5% of workers; Kansas has 12%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Clyde: the figures worth knowing
Clyde and Concordia trade workers both ways
Concordia is the top workplace for Clyde residents (18%) and also where the most people who work in Clyde come from (15% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
38% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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 288 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The towns that employ Clyde’s residents
Where Clyde clocks in
18% 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.
The commute from Clyde, by distance
About 38% 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.
A workday in Clyde: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 277 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 133 people come in from elsewhere.
About 530 people are in Clyde on a workday afternoon, 21% 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 2023, primary jobs.
The kinds of work in Clyde
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Clyde, 2013 → 2023: 292 → 144. 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 Clyde’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 17 minutes each way, quicker than most of Kansas
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Clyde workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 306 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.
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 Clyde: questions
What is the median household income in Clyde?
$44,450 (±$12,458) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,275 across Kansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Clyde?
6.9%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Clyde?
17 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Clyde work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Concordia (18%, 13 mi), Salina (9%, 55 mi), Clay Center (4%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Clyde without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Clyde, from the people who make the trip.
More of Clyde
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.