Photo: Jared Winkler · CC BY-SA 4.0Boys Town draws 3,045 commuters a day, with 18.8 jobs for every working resident
100% of workers have no commute at all (Nebraska 11%). Employers in Boys Town report 3,127 jobs for 166 working residents. About half work in Boys Town itself; outside it, Omaha draws the most (28%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Boys Town on a workday afternoon
On a workday 84 residents head out to work and 82 work right here.
About 3,600 people are in Boys Town on a workday afternoon, 481% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where Boys Town’s workers come from
Where Boys Town clocks in
28% of workers
5% of workers
2% 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.
Boys Town is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Boys Town, 2014 → 2024: 1,890 → 3,127. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Boys Town’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Boys Town
of Boys Town workers work from home, vs 11% across Nebraska. Their commute is the hallway.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
The distance from Boys Town to work
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
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 2024, 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 Boys Town: questions
What is the median household income in Boys Town?
$73,750 (±$13,702) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,475 across Nebraska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Boys Town?
66.3%, against 10.6% across Nebraska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Boys Town work?
49% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Omaha (28%, 4 mi), Lincoln (5%, 42 mi), Bellevue (2%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Boys Town, from the people who make the trip.
More of Boys Town
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.