Freeman-Zumbrunn House · Photo: SharonPapierdreams · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.6 jobs for every working resident, most of Noble Township works elsewhere
Employers in Noble Township report 371 jobs for 670 working residents. Noble Township grades C+ for jobs and income and B for walkability. Only 8% work in Noble Township itself; outside it, Abilene draws the most (16%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Noble Township in brief
The figures behind Noble Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Noble Township is better than 40% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Noble Township’s grade up (9.1%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 24% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (6.0%) is left out: Noble Township’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, Noble Township could be anywhere from C− to B+.
The places Noble Township commutes to
Where Noble Township clocks in
16% 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.
In and out of Noble Township on a workday
On a workday 617 residents head out to work, 53 work right here, and 318 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in Noble Township on a workday afternoon, 16% 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.
In Noble Township, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Noble Township, 2013 → 2023: 476 → 371. 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 Noble Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Noble Township’s commute takes about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Noble Township workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 770 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.
Noble Township’s commute, mile by mile
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.
For most of Noble Township, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Noble Township is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.4% across Kansas, on an EPA index of 5.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 813 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). 4.0% of Noble Township households have no vehicle (Kansas 5.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Noble Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,600, Noble Township ranks 2,943rd of 5,921 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
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| 49 | Oxford Township KS | 2,058 | $163K | 1.9% | 2.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 56 | Lexington Township KS | 1,512 | $135K | 0.0% | 2.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 76 | Westwood KS | 1,720 | $118K | 1.9% | 2.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,941 | Pinedale WY | 1,997 | $59K | 11.1% | 0.0% | 33% | C+ |
| 2,942 | Jackson Township IN | 1,717 | $67K | 8.9% | 0.0% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,943 | Noble Township KS | 1,927 | $76K | 9.1% | 6.0% | 8% | C+ |
| 2,944 | Fenner NY | 1,610 | $78K | 11.5% | 4.4% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,945 | Todd Township PA | 1,617 | $74K | 7.9% | 3.5% | 9% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,921 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Noble Township, the top three, the last and three more from Kansas.
Around Noble Township: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Smoky Hill Township (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Noble Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Noble Township | – | C+ | B | 21 min | $76,429 |
| Smoky Hill Township | 2% | D− | B+ | 12 min | $50,922 |
| Rinehart Township | under 3% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Hayes Township | under 3% | — | — | — | — |
| Fragrant Hill Township | under 3% | — | — | 23 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Rinehart Township, Hayes Township and Fragrant Hill Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Noble Township’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Noble Township: questions
What is the median household income in Noble Township?
$76,429 (±$14,102) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,275 across Kansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Noble Township?
9.1%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Noble Township?
21 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Noble Township work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Abilene (16%, 13 mi), Salina (10%, 35 mi), Junction City (10%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Noble Township walkable?
Noble Township is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Noble Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Noble Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Noble Township
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.