Photo: Ichabod · CC BY-SA 3.0Strong City has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Strong City has 54 jobs for 170 working residents. Only 1% work in Strong City; the top destination outside it is Emporia (25%, 18 miles). Home is the office for 6% of workers, against 12% across Kansas.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Strong City quiets down on a workday
On a workday 168 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 52 people come in from elsewhere.
About 270 people are in Strong City on a workday afternoon, 30% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where Strong City goes to work
Where Strong City clocks in
25% of workers
22% 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.
What Strong City’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Strong City, 2014 → 2024: 80 → 54. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Strong City’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 17 minutes each way for Strong City’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Strong City workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 183 commuters (the 6% 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.
The distance from Strong City to work
About 35% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, 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 Strong City: questions
What is the median household income in Strong City?
$42,500 (±$16,500) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,275 across Kansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Strong City?
10.2%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Strong City?
17 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Strong City work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Emporia (25%, 18 mi), Cottonwood Falls (22%, 2 mi), Wichita (7%, 66 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Strong City without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Strong City, from the people who make the trip.
More of Strong City
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.