Evangelical United Brethren Church · Photo: Ammodramus · CC0Households in Fullerton earn less than those in 90% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 26.9% of residents (Nebraska 10.6%). Jobs and income earn Fullerton D−; getting around on foot earns it A−. For 2% of workers, the job is at home (Nebraska 11%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Fullerton in brief
Income, poverty and work: Fullerton’s grade explained
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Fullerton’s grade.
Unemployment (3.2%) is left out: Fullerton’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, Fullerton could be anywhere from D− to D.
Miles to work from Fullerton
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.
Fullerton on a workday afternoon
On a workday 388 residents head out to work, 85 work right here, and 318 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 (0.85 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.
17% of working residents work in Columbus
Where Fullerton clocks in
17% 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 403 jobs based in Fullerton
403 jobs are based in Fullerton.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fullerton, 2013 → 2023: 498 → 403. 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 Fullerton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Fullerton: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fullerton workers work from home, vs 11% across Nebraska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 583 commuters (the 3% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Fullerton
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Fullerton is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Fullerton near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 598 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). 2.6% of Fullerton households have no vehicle (Nebraska 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Fullerton’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Fullerton compares with U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 140 | Yutan NE | 1,451 | $103K | 0.7% | 8.8% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 183 | Buccaneer Bay NE | 1,418 | $161K | 4.9% | 0.0% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 243 | Pohocco Township NE | 1,296 | $100K | 2.1% | 0.0% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,693 | Grayville IL | 1,483 | $46K | 29.8% | 8.5% | 7% | D− |
| 4,694 | Tylertown MS | 1,486 | $33K | 34.2% | 11.6% | 18% | D− |
| 4,695 | Fullerton NE | 1,228 | $48K | 26.9% | 3.2% | 18% | D− |
| 4,696 | Salina OK | 1,127 | $43K | 32.6% | 9.7% | 15% | D− |
| 4,697 | Parsons WV | 1,282 | $41K | 23.6% | 15.2% | 24% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Fullerton, 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 Fullerton: questions
What is the median household income in Fullerton?
$47,750 (±$10,233) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,475 across Nebraska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fullerton?
26.9%, against 10.6% across Nebraska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fullerton?
20 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Nebraska and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fullerton work?
18% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Columbus (17%, 32 mi), Genoa (10%, 14 mi), Omaha (5%, 100 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Fullerton walkable?
Fullerton is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.1 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fullerton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fullerton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fullerton
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.