Welborn 'Doc' Barton House · Photo: UltraSparky · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Ingalls works elsewhere
Working from home is the commute for 5% of workers; Kansas has 12%. 19 jobs are based in Ingalls, against 89 working residents. Hardly any work in Ingalls; the top destination outside it is Dodge City (22%, 24 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Ingalls
On a workday 89 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 19 people come in from elsewhere.
About 180 people are in Ingalls 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 2023, primary jobs.
The places Ingalls commutes to
Where Ingalls clocks in
22% of workers
10% 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.
Ingalls works in goods: 37% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ingalls, 2013 → 2023: 111 → 19. 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 Ingalls’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Ingalls, about 16 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ingalls workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 160 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.
Miles to work from Ingalls
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.
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 Ingalls: questions
What is the median household income in Ingalls?
$83,750 (±$13,025) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,275 across Kansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ingalls?
1.3%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ingalls?
16 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ingalls work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dodge City (22%, 24 mi), Cimarron (16%, 6 mi), Garden City (10%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Ingalls 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 Ingalls, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ingalls
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.