Stockholm Swedish Lutheran Church and Cemetery · Photo: Ammodramus · CC0Shickley at work: jobs, income and the commute
The trip to work takes 18 minutes on average, next to 19 for Nebraska and 26 for the U.S. Only 3% work in Shickley itself; outside it, Geneva draws the most (32%, 10 miles). Working from home is the commute for 18% of workers, against 11% across Nebraska.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Shickley by day and by night
On a workday 144 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 101 people come in from elsewhere.
About 300 people are in Shickley on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
0.71 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
Where people from Shickley work
Where Shickley clocks in
32% of workers
11% 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 kinds of work in Shickley
105 jobs are based in Shickley.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Shickley, 2013 → 2023: 150 → 105. 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 Shickley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Shickley: about 18 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Shickley workers work from home, vs 11% across Nebraska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 156 commuters (the 18% 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.
How far Shickley’s workers travel
About 24% 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 Shickley: questions
What is the median household income in Shickley?
$72,708 (±$28,312) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,475 across Nebraska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Shickley?
14.5%, against 10.6% across Nebraska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Shickley?
18 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Nebraska and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Shickley work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Geneva (32%, 10 mi), Lincoln (11%, 61 mi), Hastings (5%, 37 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Shickley without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Shickley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Shickley
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.