Photo: Paltron · CC BY-SA 4.0Work means Omaha for more than half of La Vista’s working residents
La Vista grades A− for jobs and income and B for walkability. Only 5% work in La Vista itself; outside it, Omaha draws the most (61%, 6 miles). Commuters spend 20 minutes getting to work on average, next to 19 for Nebraska and 26 for the U.S.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in La Vista: the gist
More than half of La Vista works in Omaha
5,220 working residents, 61%, have their main job in Omaha, 5.6 miles away. That’s 12 times as many as work in La Vista itself. The commute map ↓
Most La Vista residents work close to home
85% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. Only 3% work more than 50 miles away. How far ↓
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.
How La Vista earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, La Vista is better than 78% of U.S. towns, #13 of 57 in Nebraska. Job access by car is its strongest input (ahead of 88% of U.S. towns); household income ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns ($81,961, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, La Vista could be anywhere from B to A.
Commuting out of La Vista: the destinations
Where La Vista clocks in
61% of workers
8% of workers
3% 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.
How far La Vista’s workers travel
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.
Who works in La Vista, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 8,115 residents head out to work, 449 work right here, and 11,055 people come in from elsewhere.
About 19,000 people are in La Vista on a workday afternoon, 18% 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.
67% of the jobs in La Vista pay over $3,333 a month
11,504 jobs are based in La Vista.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in La Vista, 2013 → 2023: 10,003 → 11,504. 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 La Vista’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 20 minutes in La Vista
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of La Vista workers work from home, vs 11% across Nebraska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 8,640 commuters (the 13% 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.
In La Vista, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, La Vista is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns, #34 of 57 in Nebraska. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.5% across Nebraska.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 9,922 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 24% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 5% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 42% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.6% of La Vista households have no vehicle (Nebraska 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of La Vista’s commuters take a bus or train.
La Vista next to U.S. towns of 12,000 to 22,000: 678th of 1,888 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Trophy Club TX | 13,695 | $201K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 676 | Takoma Park MD | 17,260 | $108K | 9.1% | 4.9% | 3% | A− |
| 677 | Forest Lake MN | 20,952 | $93K | 7.0% | 4.3% | 14% | A− |
| 678 | La Vista NE | 16,543 | $82K | 7.5% | 3.4% | 5% | A− |
| 679 | Elizabeth Township PA | 12,399 | $81K | 5.7% | 3.1% | 10% | A− |
| 680 | Mount Washington KY | 18,989 | $96K | 5.3% | 4.6% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,312 | South Sioux City NE | 14,158 | $68K | 12.2% | 5.0% | 17% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,394 | Scottsbluff NE | 14,259 | $56K | 15.4% | 2.6% | 51% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,412 | Beatrice NE | 12,318 | $57K | 17.4% | 1.7% | 45% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,888 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 La Vista, the top three, the last and three more from Nebraska.
La Vista and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Papillion (8%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of La Vista’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 La Vista: questions
What is the median household income in La Vista?
$81,961 (±$7,741) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,475 across Nebraska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in La Vista?
7.5%, against 10.6% across Nebraska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from La Vista?
20 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Nebraska and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in La Vista work?
5% work in town.
Is La Vista walkable?
La Vista is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 9.4 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around La Vista without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 5% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from La Vista, from the people who make the trip.
More of La Vista
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.