Photo: Ammodramus · Public domainBartlett draws 73 commuters a day, with 1.9 jobs for every working resident
Working residents average 12 minutes each way (Nebraska 19, U.S. 26). 78 jobs are based in Bartlett, against 41 working residents. About one in seven stay in Bartlett for work; outside it, Ord is the main destination (7%, 27 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Bartlett by day and by night
On a workday 36 residents head out to work and 5 work right here.
About 140 people are in Bartlett on a workday afternoon, 35% more 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.
Where Bartlett’s workforce comes from
Where Bartlett clocks in
7% of workers
5% 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 health care, schools and offices in Bartlett
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bartlett, 2013 → 2023: 66 → 78. 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 Bartlett’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Bartlett spends getting to work: about 12 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bartlett workers work from home, vs 11% across Nebraska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 99 commuters (the 9% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Bartlett
About 37% 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.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Bartlett: questions
What is the median household income in Bartlett?
$51,154 (±$8,173) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,475 across Nebraska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bartlett?
2.6%, against 10.6% across Nebraska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bartlett?
12 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Nebraska and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bartlett work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ord (7%, 27 mi), York (5%, 86 mi), Grand Island (5%, 67 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bartlett without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bartlett, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bartlett
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.