Evangelical Lutheran School · Photo: SharonPapierdreams · CC BY-SA 4.0Jobs and earnings in Sylvan Grove, and the trip to work
Working from home is the commute for 5% of workers, where Kansas as a whole has 12%. About one in ten work in Sylvan Grove itself; outside it, Lincoln Center draws the most (23%, 14 miles). Commuters spend 14 minutes getting to work on average, where Kansas has 20 and the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Sylvan Grove
On a workday 84 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 97 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.14 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Sylvan Grove: the destinations
Where Sylvan Grove clocks in
23% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
105 jobs are based in Sylvan Grove.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sylvan Grove, 2014 → 2024: 124 → 105. 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 Sylvan Grove’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Sylvan Grove: about 14 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sylvan Grove workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 141 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Sylvan Grove
About 25% 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 Sylvan Grove: questions
What is the median household income in Sylvan Grove?
$53,750 (±$18,051) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,275 across Kansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sylvan Grove?
20.7%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sylvan Grove?
14 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sylvan Grove work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lincoln Center (23%, 14 mi), Salina (15%, 44 mi), Beloit (7%, 35 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Sylvan Grove without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sylvan Grove, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sylvan Grove
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.