Photo: Ryan Renner · CC BY-SA 4.0Omaha draws about half of Fort Calhoun’s working residents
Fort Calhoun grades A− for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Household incomes here are higher than in 79% of U.S. towns. About one in ten work in Fort Calhoun; the top destination outside it is Omaha (49%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Fort Calhoun, in brief
Nearly half of Fort Calhoun works in Omaha
286 working residents, 49%, have their main job in Omaha, 14 miles away. That’s 5 times as many as work in Fort Calhoun itself. The commute map ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Fort Calhoun
67% of Fort Calhoun residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 46% of the jobs based in Fort Calhoun pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 91% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
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 581 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Fort Calhoun’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Fort Calhoun is better than 85% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Fort Calhoun’s grade. It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (2.1%) is left out: Fort Calhoun’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, Fort Calhoun could be anywhere from B− to A+.
Where Fort Calhoun goes to work
Where Fort Calhoun clocks in
49% of workers
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.
The 484 jobs based in Fort Calhoun
484 jobs are based in Fort Calhoun.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fort Calhoun, 2013 → 2023: 440 → 484. 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 Fort Calhoun’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Fort Calhoun by day
On a workday 527 residents head out to work, 54 work right here, and 430 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 (0.83 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.
Each way, about 22 minutes from Fort Calhoun
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fort Calhoun workers work from home, vs 11% across Nebraska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 497 commuters (the 12% 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 commute from Fort Calhoun, by distance
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.
Most of Fort Calhoun commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Fort Calhoun is more walkable than 51% 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 5.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 565 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). 13.5% of Fort Calhoun households have no vehicle (Nebraska 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Fort Calhoun’s commuters take a bus or train.
245th of 3,771: where Fort Calhoun 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 |
| … | |||||||
| 243 | Newburg WI | 1,129 | $78K | 2.3% | 1.3% | <1% | A |
| 244 | Poygan WI | 1,297 | $98K | 2.9% | 0.3% | 1% | A |
| 245 | Fort Calhoun NE | 1,108 | $102K | 6.9% | 2.1% | 9% | A− |
| 246 | Barneveld WI | 1,333 | $114K | 4.6% | 2.8% | 5% | A− |
| 247 | Palmyra WI | 1,230 | $86K | 3.7% | 2.9% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Fort Calhoun, 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 Fort Calhoun: questions
What is the median household income in Fort Calhoun?
$102,396 (±$39,066) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,475 across Nebraska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fort Calhoun?
6.9%, against 10.6% across Nebraska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fort Calhoun?
22 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Nebraska and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fort Calhoun work?
9% work in town.
Is Fort Calhoun walkable?
Fort Calhoun is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fort Calhoun without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fort Calhoun, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fort Calhoun
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.