Satanta has lower household incomes than 86% of U.S. towns
The two grades for Satanta are D for jobs and income and A− for walkability. Below the poverty line: 9.6% of residents, next to 11.3% across Kansas. Working from home is the commute for 3% of workers, where Kansas as a whole has 12%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Satanta
Commutes from Satanta are quick
The average trip to work takes 10 minutes, against 20 across Kansas. That’s about 77 hours a year less on the road than the typical Kansas worker. Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
30% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Few Satanta workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 12% across Kansas. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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 329 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Satanta earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Satanta is better than 15% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Satanta’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 8% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (3.4%) is left out: Satanta’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Satanta could be anywhere from D− to B−.
How long Satanta spends getting to work: about 10 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Satanta workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 354 commuters (the 3% 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 far it is to work from Satanta
About 30% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Satanta
On a workday 312 residents head out to work, 17 work right here, and 188 people come in from elsewhere.
About 920 people are in Satanta on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
0.62 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
23% of working residents work in Haskell Township
Where Satanta clocks in
12% 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.
What Satanta’s employers do
205 jobs are based in Satanta.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Satanta, 2013 → 2023: 235 → 205. 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 Satanta’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Satanta is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Satanta is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 10.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.4% across Kansas, on an EPA index of 6.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 366 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). 7.4% of Satanta households have no vehicle (Kansas 5.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Satanta’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,311th of 3,133: where Satanta ranks among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Lake Quivira KS | 1,005 | $178K | 3.8% | 0.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 56 | Delaware Township KS | 1,121 | $119K | 2.4% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 75 | Payne Township KS | 1,375 | $104K | 1.8% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,309 | Salamatof AK | 1,149 | $67K | 14.2% | 34.0% | — | C− |
| 2,310 | Odon IN | 1,378 | $49K | 11.4% | 2.8% | 5% | D |
| 2,311 | Satanta KS | 1,046 | $51K | 9.6% | 3.4% | 5% | D |
| 2,312 | Sykesville PA | 1,078 | $45K | 14.1% | 3.8% | 5% | D |
| 2,313 | Due West SC | 1,299 | $54K | 17.6% | 22.6% | 6% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Satanta, the top three, the last and three more from Kansas.
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 Satanta: questions
What is the median household income in Satanta?
$51,467 (±$20,499) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,275 across Kansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Satanta?
9.6%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Satanta?
10 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Satanta work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Haskell Township (23%, 10 mi), Sublette (12%, 8 mi), Dudley Township (6%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Satanta walkable?
Satanta is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 10% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Satanta without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Satanta, from the people who make the trip.
More of Satanta
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.