Creighton’s household incomes are lower than in 88% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 14.5% of residents (Nebraska 10.6%). Creighton grades D for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. About one in four stay in Creighton for work; outside it, Verdigre is the main destination (10%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Creighton
Creighton’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Creighton is better than 6% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Creighton’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 3% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (4.3%) is left out: Creighton’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Creighton could be anywhere from D− to C−.
What the 555 jobs in Creighton are
555 jobs are based in Creighton.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Creighton, 2013 → 2023: 493 → 555. 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 Creighton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily commute in and out of Creighton
On a workday 296 residents head out to work, 119 work right here, and 436 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Creighton on a workday afternoon, 13% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.34 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.
Out of Creighton to work: where people go
Where Creighton clocks in
5% of workers
4% 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.
About 20 minutes each way, about the NE average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Creighton workers work from home, vs 11% across Nebraska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 496 commuters (the 4% 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.
Miles to work from Creighton
About 26% 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.
For most of Creighton, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Creighton is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.5% across Nebraska, on an EPA index of 7.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 514 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 9.2% of Creighton households have no vehicle (Nebraska 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Creighton’s commuters take a bus or train.
3,310th of 3,771: where Creighton ranks among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 106 | Yutan NE | 1,451 | $103K | 0.7% | 8.8% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 132 | Buccaneer Bay NE | 1,418 | $161K | 4.9% | 0.0% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 174 | Pohocco Township NE | 1,296 | $100K | 2.1% | 0.0% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,308 | Lake Linden MI | 1,041 | $43K | 13.8% | 9.2% | 3% | D |
| 3,309 | Stover MO | 1,064 | $48K | 16.2% | 1.1% | 15% | D |
| 3,310 | Creighton NE | 1,113 | $50K | 14.5% | 4.3% | 29% | D |
| 3,311 | Salineville OH | 1,149 | $48K | 21.5% | 2.2% | 3% | D |
| 3,312 | Sophia WV | 1,076 | $36K | 38.0% | 12.4% | 4% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Creighton, the top three, the last and three more from Nebraska.
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 Creighton: questions
What is the median household income in Creighton?
$50,278 (±$9,915) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,475 across Nebraska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Creighton?
14.5%, against 10.6% across Nebraska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Creighton?
20 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Nebraska and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Creighton work?
29% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Verdigre (10%, 11 mi), Center (5%, 10 mi), Omaha (4%, 126 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Creighton walkable?
Creighton is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Creighton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Creighton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Creighton
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.