Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Jobs, income and commuting in Leoti, KS
About two in five work in Leoti; the top destination outside it is Marienthal (4%, 8 miles). For jobs and income Leoti is better than 13% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns (A−). Commuters spend 10 minutes getting to work on average, where Kansas has 20 and the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Leoti and work: the main findings
Where Leoti’s Jobs & income grade comes from
Household income holds Leoti’s grade up ($73,594, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 3% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.6%) is left out: Leoti’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, Leoti could be anywhere from D− to C+.
Time on the road from Leoti: about 10 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Leoti workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 566 commuters (the 8% 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.
Leoti on a workday afternoon
On a workday 271 residents head out to work, 201 work right here, and 311 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 (1.08 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.
Where Leoti goes to work
Where Leoti clocks in
4% of workers
3% 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.
Inside Leoti’s 512 jobs
512 jobs are based in Leoti.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Leoti, 2013 → 2023: 647 → 512. 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 Leoti’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Leoti
About 27% 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.
Leoti is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 613 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). 6.3% of Leoti households have no vehicle (Kansas 5.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Leoti’s commuters take a bus or train.
Leoti is 4,580th of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 53 | Lake Quivira KS | 1,005 | $178K | 3.8% | 0.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 57 | Lexington Township KS | 1,512 | $135K | 0.0% | 2.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 73 | Westwood KS | 1,720 | $118K | 1.9% | 2.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,578 | Evergreen WI | 1,228 | $58K | 12.2% | 1.8% | <1% | D |
| 4,579 | Woodbine GA | 1,084 | $46K | 10.5% | 2.6% | 8% | D |
| 4,580 | Leoti KS | 1,397 | $74K | 18.3% | 0.6% | 43% | D |
| 4,581 | Wellsville MO | 1,012 | $61K | 14.4% | 6.2% | 8% | D |
| 4,582 | Williamsport OH | 1,027 | $57K | 20.7% | 4.8% | 1% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Leoti, 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 Leoti: questions
What is the median household income in Leoti?
$73,594 (±$27,875) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,275 across Kansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Leoti?
18.3%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Leoti?
10 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Leoti work?
43% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Marienthal (4%, 8 mi), Garden City (4%, 45 mi), Wichita (3%, 225 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Leoti walkable?
Leoti is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.3 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Leoti 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 Leoti, from the people who make the trip.
More of Leoti
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.