Perkins County Courthouse · Photo: Ammodramus · CC0Grant at work: jobs, income and the commute
Grant grades C for jobs and income and A− for walkability. About two in five work in Grant itself; outside it, North Platte draws the most (5%, 54 miles). Home is the office for 5% of workers; Nebraska has 11%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Grant stands out on work
Grant is where the jobs are
Grant has 640 jobs, 1.6 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Grant are quick
The average trip to work takes 9 minutes, against 19 across Nebraska. That’s about 77 hours a year less on the road than the typical Nebraska worker. Time on the road ↓
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 401 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Grant
On income, poverty and job access, Grant is better than 30% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Grant’s grade up (8.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 6% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.4%) is left out: Grant’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Grant could be anywhere from D to B−.
Grant on a workday afternoon
On a workday 248 residents head out to work, 153 work right here, and 487 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Grant on a workday afternoon, 21% more than live here.
1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting from Grant: about 9 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 2.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Grant workers work from home, vs 11% across Nebraska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 679 commuters (the 5% 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 daily trip into Grant
Where Grant clocks in
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.
Jobs in Grant: what the 640 are
640 jobs are based in Grant.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Grant, 2013 → 2023: 594 → 640. 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 Grant’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Grant goes to work
About 29% 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.
Grant is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Grant is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Grant 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 712 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). 2.7% of Grant households have no vehicle (Nebraska 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Grant’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600, Grant comes 2,426th on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 125 | Yutan NE | 1,451 | $103K | 0.7% | 8.8% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 157 | Buccaneer Bay NE | 1,418 | $161K | 4.9% | 0.0% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 209 | Pohocco Township NE | 1,296 | $100K | 2.1% | 0.0% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,424 | Charlotte Hall MD | 1,172 | $84K | 20.3% | 4.9% | 2% | C |
| 2,425 | La Union NM | 1,071 | $56K | 14.1% | 8.2% | 1% | C |
| 2,426 | Grant NE | 1,158 | $71K | 8.4% | 0.4% | 38% | C |
| 2,427 | Kenbridge VA | 1,103 | $62K | 7.5% | 0.7% | 11% | C |
| 2,428 | New Vienna OH | 1,106 | $61K | 8.8% | 2.1% | 1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Grant, 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 Grant: questions
What is the median household income in Grant?
$71,389 (±$10,625) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,475 across Nebraska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Grant?
8.4%, against 10.6% across Nebraska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Grant?
9 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Nebraska and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Grant work?
38% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are North Platte (5%, 54 mi), Elsie (4%, 18 mi), Ogallala (4%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Grant walkable?
Grant is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.8 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Grant 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 Grant, from the people who make the trip.
More of Grant
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.