Photo: Jared Winkler · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Barada works elsewhere
0% of workers have no commute at all (Nebraska 11%). Employers in Barada report 1 jobs for 16 working residents. Hardly any work in Barada; the top destination outside it is Omaha (19%, 76 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Barada for work, and who comes in
On a workday 16 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 1 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4 people are in Barada on a workday afternoon, 79% 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 Barada: the destinations
Where Barada clocks in
19% of workers
13% 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
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Barada, 2013 → 2023: 2 → 1. 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 Barada’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Barada
of Barada workers work from home, vs 11% across Nebraska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 18 commuters (the 0% who work from home are left out). Across Nebraska: 86% 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.
How many miles Barada commutes
About 53% 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: 0% of Barada workers work outside Nebraska. The job records count 19% 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 Barada: questions
What is the poverty rate in Barada?
8.6%, against 10.6% across Nebraska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Barada work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Omaha (19%, 76 mi), Council Bluffs (13%, 72 mi), Falls City (13%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Barada 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 Barada, from the people who make the trip.
More of Barada
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.