Mount Hope has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Only 2% stay in Mount Hope for work; outside it, Wichita is the main destination (41%, 21 miles). Employers in Mount Hope report 63 jobs for 351 working residents. For 6% of workers, the job is at home, next to 12% for Kansas as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Mount Hope: the figures worth knowing
Mount Hope and Wichita trade workers both ways
Wichita is the top workplace for Mount Hope residents (41%) and also where the most people who work in Mount Hope come from (24% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Mount Hope is a place people come home to
There are 63 jobs based in Mount Hope, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Mount Hope has about 520 people in it, 36% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Mount Hope workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 29 minutes each way, against 20 across Kansas. Over a year that’s about 222 hours of commuting, 69 more than the state’s typical worker. 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 351 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where people from Mount Hope work
Where Mount Hope clocks in
41% of workers
6% 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.
In and out of Mount Hope on a workday
On a workday 345 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 57 people come in from elsewhere.
About 520 people are in Mount Hope on a workday afternoon, 36% 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.
A commute of about 29 minutes in Mount Hope
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mount Hope workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 361 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 Mount Hope’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mount Hope, 2013 → 2023: 111 → 63. 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 Mount Hope’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Mount Hope’s workers travel
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 Mount Hope: questions
What is the median household income in Mount Hope?
$74,926 (±$13,445) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,275 across Kansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mount Hope?
1.6%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mount Hope?
29 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mount Hope work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wichita (41%, 21 mi), Maize (6%, 13 mi), Hutchinson (6%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Mount Hope without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mount Hope, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mount Hope
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.