Photo: Art davis · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Sedgwick works elsewhere
210 jobs are based in Sedgwick for 703 working residents. For jobs and income Sedgwick is better than 80% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns (A−). Only 3% work in Sedgwick; the top destination outside it is Wichita (37%, 16 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Sedgwick, in a few figures
Sedgwick and Wichita trade workers both ways
Wichita is the top workplace for Sedgwick residents (37%) and also where the most people who work in Sedgwick come from (23% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Sedgwick is a place people come home to
There are 210 jobs based in Sedgwick, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Sedgwick has about 1,100 people in it, 31% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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 703 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Sedgwick
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Sedgwick’s grade. It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (0.4%) is left out: Sedgwick’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, Sedgwick could be anywhere from B to A.
The places Sedgwick commutes to
Where Sedgwick clocks in
37% of workers
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.
The daily commute in and out of Sedgwick
On a workday 684 residents head out to work, 19 work right here, and 191 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Sedgwick on a workday afternoon, 31% 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.
Jobs in Sedgwick: what the 210 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sedgwick, 2013 → 2023: 277 → 210. 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 Sedgwick’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Sedgwick, about 23 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sedgwick workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 747 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Sedgwick
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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Sedgwick
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 9.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.4% across Kansas, on an EPA index of 7.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 790 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). 4.5% of Sedgwick households have no vehicle (Kansas 5.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Sedgwick’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100, Sedgwick ranks 621st of 5,794 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 50 | Oxford Township KS | 2,058 | $163K | 1.9% | 2.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 57 | Lexington Township KS | 1,512 | $135K | 0.0% | 2.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 75 | Westwood KS | 1,720 | $118K | 1.9% | 2.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 619 | Township 6 NE | 1,587 | $95K | 4.2% | 0.0% | 1% | A− |
| 620 | Prairie City IA | 1,724 | $78K | 3.4% | 6.4% | 4% | A− |
| 621 | Sedgwick KS | 1,575 | $93K | 5.9% | 0.4% | 3% | A− |
| 622 | Otis MA | 1,610 | $109K | 1.2% | 6.2% | 10% | A− |
| 623 | Lofall WA | 1,800 | $114K | 0.8% | 5.3% | <1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | 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 Sedgwick, 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 Sedgwick: questions
What is the median household income in Sedgwick?
$93,125 (±$19,499) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,275 across Kansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sedgwick?
5.9%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sedgwick?
23 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sedgwick work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wichita (37%, 16 mi), Newton (12%, 9 mi), Valley Center (4%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sedgwick walkable?
Sedgwick is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sedgwick 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 Sedgwick, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sedgwick
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.