Earning a living in Chambers
For 19% of workers, the job is at home, where Nebraska as a whole has 11%. Only 8% stay in Chambers for work; outside it, Ewing is the main destination (17%, 21 miles). A typical one-way commute from Chambers lasts 29 minutes (Nebraska 19, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Chambers by day and by night
On a workday 58 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 82 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.38 per resident).
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 towns that employ Chambers’ residents
Where Chambers clocks in
17% of workers
11% 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.
What work there is in Chambers: 87 jobs
87 jobs are based in Chambers.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Chambers, 2013 → 2023: 66 → 87. 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 Chambers’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Chambers, about 29 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Chambers workers work from home, vs 11% across Nebraska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 177 commuters (the 19% 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.
The distance from Chambers to work
About 33% 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 Chambers: questions
What is the median household income in Chambers?
$73,333 (±$11,457) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,475 across Nebraska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Chambers?
10.9%, against 10.6% across Nebraska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Chambers?
29 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Nebraska and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Chambers work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ewing (17%, 21 mi), O'Neill (11%, 18 mi), Atkinson (10%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Chambers 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 Chambers, from the people who make the trip.
More of Chambers
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.