Photo: Ammodramus · Public domainBertrand has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
Bertrand has 127 jobs; 258 of its residents have a job. Only 5% work in Bertrand; the top destination outside it is Holdrege (25%, 15 miles). A typical one-way commute lasts 13 minutes, next to 19 for Nebraska and 26 for the U.S.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Bertrand and work: the main findings
Bertrand and Holdrege trade workers both ways
Holdrege is the top workplace for Bertrand residents (25%) and also where the most people who work in Bertrand come from (13% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Bertrand are quick
The average trip to work takes 13 minutes, against 19 across Nebraska. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Nebraska worker. Time on the road ↓
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 258 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Bertrand goes to work
Where Bertrand clocks in
25% of workers
9% of workers
3% 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.
A commute of about 13 minutes in Bertrand
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bertrand workers work from home, vs 11% across Nebraska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 313 commuters (the 10% 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.
Bertrand by day and by night
On a workday 245 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 114 people come in from elsewhere.
About 570 people are in Bertrand on a workday afternoon, 19% 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.
The kinds of work in Bertrand
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bertrand, 2013 → 2023: 87 → 127. 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 Bertrand’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many miles Bertrand commutes
About 23% 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 Bertrand: questions
What is the median household income in Bertrand?
$73,672 (±$16,635) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,475 across Nebraska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bertrand?
4.5%, against 10.6% across Nebraska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bertrand?
13 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Nebraska and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bertrand work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Holdrege (25%, 15 mi), Kearney (9%, 31 mi), Lexington (3%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bertrand without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bertrand, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bertrand
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.