Most of Prairie View commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Prairie View has 6 jobs, against 49 working residents. Hardly any work in Prairie View itself; outside it, Logan draws the most (16%, 12 miles). At home: 2% of workers have no commute at all (Kansas 12%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Prairie View by day and by night
On a workday 49 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 6 people come in from elsewhere.
About 56 people are in Prairie View on a workday afternoon, 43% 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 Prairie View’s working residents head each day
Where Prairie View clocks in
14% 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.
Jobs in Prairie View: what the 6 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Prairie View, 2013 → 2023: 22 → 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 Prairie View’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Prairie View spends getting to work: about 17 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Prairie View workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 96 commuters (the 2% 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 Prairie View commutes less than 17 miles
About 29% 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 Prairie View compares with the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Prairie View workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie View | – | — | — | 17 min | $128,958 |
| Beaver Township | under 3% | — | — | — | — |
| Prairie View Township | under 3% | — | — | 17 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Beaver Township and Prairie View Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Prairie View’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 Prairie View: questions
What is the median household income in Prairie View?
$128,958 (±$57,781) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,275 across Kansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Prairie View?
4.5%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Prairie View?
17 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Prairie View work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Logan (16%, 12 mi), Phillipsburg (14%, 14 mi), Norton (10%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Prairie View 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 Prairie View, from the people who make the trip.
More of Prairie View
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.