Photo: Kswx29 · CC BY 3.0Work means Topeka for more than half of Tecumseh’s working residents
Commuters spend 28 minutes getting to work on average, next to 20 for Kansas and 26 for the U.S. Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers, next to 12% for Kansas as a whole. Hardly any work in Tecumseh itself; outside it, Topeka draws the most (58%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Tecumseh at work: what stands out
More than half of Tecumseh works in Topeka
192 working residents, 58%, have their main job in Topeka, 6.3 miles away. That’s far more as work in Tecumseh itself. The commute map ↓
Tecumseh is a place people come home to
There are 17 jobs based in Tecumseh, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Tecumseh has about 150 people in it, 68% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Most Tecumseh residents work close to home
72% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
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.
The places Tecumseh commutes to
Where Tecumseh clocks in
58% of workers
7% of workers
4% 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.
How a workday changes Tecumseh
On a workday 329 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 17 people come in from elsewhere.
About 150 people are in Tecumseh on a workday afternoon, 68% fewer than live here.
0.05 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Tecumseh
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.
What Tecumseh’s employers do
17 jobs are based in Tecumseh.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tecumseh, 2013 → 2023: 33 → 17. 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 Tecumseh’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Tecumseh takes about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tecumseh workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 204 commuters (the 0% 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.
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 Tecumseh: questions
What is the median household income in Tecumseh?
$77,740 (±$15,907) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,275 across Kansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tecumseh?
0.0%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tecumseh?
28 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tecumseh work?
0% work in town.
Can you get around Tecumseh without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tecumseh, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tecumseh
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.