Pawnee Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
Employers in Pawnee Township report 6 jobs, and 141 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Pawnee Township itself; outside it, Fort Scott draws the most (30%, 10 miles). For 27% of workers, the job is at home, where Kansas as a whole has 12%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Pawnee Township
On a workday 140 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 5 people come in from elsewhere.
About 130 people are in Pawnee Township on a workday afternoon, 51% 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.
Where people from Pawnee Township work
Where Pawnee Township clocks in
30% of workers
5% 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.
Goods, not services: 83% of the jobs in Pawnee Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pawnee Township, 2013 → 2023: 5 → 6. 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 Pawnee Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 20 minutes to work from Pawnee Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pawnee Township workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 98 commuters (the 27% 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.
How many miles Pawnee Township commutes
About 33% 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.
How Pawnee Township compares with the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Pawnee Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pawnee Township | – | — | — | 20 min | — |
| Sherman Township | under 2% | — | — | 15 min | — |
| Marmaton Township | under 2% | — | — | 25 min | — |
| Walnut Township | under 2% | — | — | 58 min | — |
| Drywood Township | under 2% | — | — | 19 min | — |
| Lincoln Township | under 2% | — | — | 20 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Sherman Township, Marmaton Township, Walnut Township, Drywood Township and Lincoln Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Pawnee 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 Pawnee Township: questions
What is the poverty rate in Pawnee Township?
35.9%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pawnee Township?
20 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 27% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pawnee Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Scott (30%, 10 mi), Uniontown (7%, 12 mi), Arkansas City (5%, 129 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Pawnee Township 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 Pawnee Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pawnee 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.