Photo: Ammodramus · Public domainWith 0.6 jobs for every working resident, most of Stanton works elsewhere
Stanton has 422 jobs; 748 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Stanton is better than 34% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns (B). Only 7% work in Stanton; the top destination outside it is Norfolk (41%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Stanton, in brief
What’s behind Stanton’s Jobs & income grade
Household income holds Stanton’s grade up ($76,500, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 20% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.4%) is left out: Stanton’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, Stanton could be anywhere from C− to B−.
Commuting out of Stanton: the destinations
Where Stanton clocks in
41% of workers
5% 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.
In and out of Stanton on a workday
On a workday 692 residents head out to work, 56 work right here, and 366 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Stanton on a workday afternoon, 22% fewer 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Stanton
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Stanton, 2013 → 2023: 485 → 422. 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 Stanton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Stanton: 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 Stanton workers work from home, vs 11% across Nebraska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 738 commuters (the 6% 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 Stanton goes to work
About 20% 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.
Most trips from Stanton start in a car
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 784 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). 5.5% of Stanton households have no vehicle (Nebraska 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Stanton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Stanton is 2,868th among 5,397 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 169 | Yutan NE | 1,451 | $103K | 0.7% | 8.8% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 233 | Buccaneer Bay NE | 1,418 | $161K | 4.9% | 0.0% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 303 | Pohocco Township NE | 1,296 | $100K | 2.1% | 0.0% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,866 | Maple Grove Township MI | 1,635 | $85K | 12.2% | 5.5% | 1% | C |
| 2,867 | Atwood KS | 1,229 | $72K | 6.9% | 0.6% | 41% | C |
| 2,868 | Stanton NE | 1,506 | $77K | 10.7% | 2.4% | 7% | C |
| 2,869 | Liberty Township IN | 1,442 | $72K | 13.0% | 6.0% | 1% | C |
| 2,870 | Kirklin Township IN | 1,246 | $58K | 13.0% | 1.6% | 6% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,397 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Stanton, 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 Stanton: questions
What is the median household income in Stanton?
$76,500 (±$13,770) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,475 across Nebraska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Stanton?
10.7%, against 10.6% across Nebraska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Stanton?
20 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Nebraska and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Stanton work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Norfolk (41%, 12 mi), Omaha (5%, 76 mi), Lincoln (3%, 83 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Stanton walkable?
Stanton is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Stanton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Stanton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Stanton
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.