White Cloud Historic District · Photo: Patricia DuBose Duncan · Public domainWith 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of White Cloud works elsewhere
Employers in White Cloud report 7 jobs; 51 of its residents have a job. Only 2% work in White Cloud itself; outside it, Highland draws the most (14%, 8 miles). Home is the office for 0% of workers, next to 12% for Kansas as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
In and out of White Cloud on a workday
On a workday 50 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 6 people come in from elsewhere.
About 74 people are in White Cloud on a workday afternoon, 37% 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.
Commuting out of White Cloud: the destinations
Where White Cloud clocks in
14% of workers
10% 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.
Making and building: 29% of jobs based in White Cloud
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in White Cloud, 2013 → 2023: 9 → 7. 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 White Cloud’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From White Cloud, about 26 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of White Cloud workers work from home, vs 12% across Kansas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 42 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from White Cloud
About 22% 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.
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.
- Two counts of out-of-state work. The Census survey asks workers where they work: 5% of White Cloud workers work outside Kansas. The job records count 20% at employers in other states. The records use the address the employer reports and skip the self-employed, so the two can differ.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in White Cloud: questions
What is the median household income in White Cloud?
$47,031 (±$20,565) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,275 across Kansas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in White Cloud?
16.2%, against 11.3% across Kansas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from White Cloud?
26 minutes each way on average, against 20 across Kansas and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in White Cloud work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Highland (14%, 8 mi), St. Joseph (14%, 29 mi), Seneca (10%, 42 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around White Cloud 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 White Cloud, from the people who make the trip.
More of White Cloud
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.