Brewer Scout Cabin · Photo: SharonPapierdreams · CC BY-SA 4.0Solomon has lower household incomes than 87% of U.S. towns
About one in ten work in Solomon itself; outside it, Salina draws the most (29%, 15 miles). Below the poverty line: 5.9% of residents, next to 11.3% for Kansas as a whole. Jobs and income earn Solomon C+; getting around on foot earns it C.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Solomon: the gist
Solomon and Salina trade workers both ways
Salina is the top workplace for Solomon residents (29%) and also where the most people who work in Solomon come from (26% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Solomon makes and builds things
69% of the jobs based in Solomon are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Solomon residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 27%. The jobs ↓
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 411 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Solomon’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Solomon is better than 35% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Solomon’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($51,063, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (2.6%) is left out: Solomon’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, Solomon could be anywhere from C− to B−.
Commuting out of Solomon: the destinations
Where Solomon clocks in
12% of workers
7% 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 jobs make up 69% of work in Solomon
519 jobs are based in Solomon.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Solomon, 2013 → 2023: 556 → 519. 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 Solomon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of Solomon, and who commutes in
On a workday 366 residents head out to work, 45 work right here, and 474 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Solomon on a workday afternoon, 11% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.26 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
A commute of about 18 minutes in Solomon
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Solomon workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 359 commuters (the 7% 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.
Miles to work from Solomon
About 23% 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.
In Solomon, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Solomon is more walkable than 26% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Solomon near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 384 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). 15.6% of Solomon households have no vehicle (Kansas 5.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Solomon’s commuters take a bus or train.
Solomon next to U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400: 1,539th of 3,133 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 | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,537 | Wilmot Township PA | 1,135 | $85K | 9.4% | 7.6% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,538 | Main Township PA | 1,290 | $71K | 13.8% | 8.4% | <1% | C+ |
| 1,539 | Solomon KS | 1,007 | $51K | 5.9% | 2.6% | 11% | C+ |
| 1,540 | Highlands NC | 1,127 | $72K | 7.9% | 4.3% | 31% | C+ |
| 1,541 | Central High OK | 1,229 | $75K | 9.9% | 2.4% | 1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Solomon, the top three, the last and three more from Kansas.
How Solomon compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Lincoln Township (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Solomon workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solomon | – | C+ | C | 18 min | $51,063 |
| Lincoln Township | 5% | B− | C− | 19 min | $65,962 |
| Dayton Township | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Dayton Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Solomon’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 Solomon: questions
What is the median household income in Solomon?
$51,063 (±$13,517) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,275 across Kansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Solomon?
5.9%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Solomon?
18 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Solomon work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Salina (29%, 15 mi), Abilene (12%, 8 mi), Topeka (7%, 90 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Solomon walkable?
Solomon is more walkable than 26% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Solomon without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 16% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Solomon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Solomon
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.