Photo: mamcginnis · CC BY-SA 3.0Pawnee Rock has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Only 1% work in Pawnee Rock itself; outside it, Great Bend draws the most (24%, 12 miles). Pawnee Rock has 14 jobs, against 89 working residents. Home is the office for 0% of workers, where Kansas as a whole has 12%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily commute in and out of Pawnee Rock
On a workday 88 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 13 people come in from elsewhere.
About 110 people are in Pawnee Rock on a workday afternoon, 41% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where people from Pawnee Rock work
Where Pawnee Rock clocks in
24% of workers
9% 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.
Jobs in Pawnee Rock: what the 14 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pawnee Rock, 2014 → 2024: 34 → 14. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Pawnee Rock’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Pawnee Rock spends getting to work: about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pawnee Rock workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 102 commuters (the 0% 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.
Half of Pawnee Rock commutes less than 26 miles
About 34% 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 2024.
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 2024, 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 Pawnee Rock: questions
What is the median household income in Pawnee Rock?
$48,026 (±$22,702) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,275 across Kansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pawnee Rock?
41.1%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pawnee Rock?
21 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pawnee Rock work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Great Bend (24%, 12 mi), Wichita (9%, 98 mi), Hoisington (6%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Pawnee Rock without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pawnee Rock, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pawnee Rock
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.