Hamlet has 2.0 jobs for every working resident: 22 people commute in to work
Home is the office for 0% of workers (Nebraska 11%). Employers in Hamlet report 24 jobs; 12 of its residents have a job. About one in seven work in Hamlet; the top destination outside it is Hayes Center (17%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Hamlet on a workday afternoon
On a workday 10 residents head out to work and 2 work right here.
About 38 people are in Hamlet on a workday afternoon, 46% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Who travels to work in Hamlet, and from where
Where Hamlet clocks in
Lines 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.
Hamlet makes things: 100% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Hamlet’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Hamlet
of Hamlet workers work from home, vs 11% across Nebraska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 8 commuters (the 0% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Hamlet
About 17% 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 Hamlet: questions
What is the poverty rate in Hamlet?
25.0%, against 10.6% across Nebraska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Hamlet work?
17% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hayes Center (17%, 14 mi), Palisade (8%, 7 mi), Wallace (8%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Hamlet 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 Hamlet, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hamlet
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.