Charles H. Morrill Homestead · Public domainStromsburg has lower household incomes than 76% of U.S. towns
Stromsburg grades C− for jobs and income and A− for walkability. Poverty touches 12.2% of residents, where Nebraska as a whole has 10.6%. About one in ten work in Stromsburg itself; outside it, Columbus draws the most (10%, 25 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Stromsburg in brief
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Stromsburg
On income, poverty and job access, Stromsburg is better than 16% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Stromsburg’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 12% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.2%) is left out: Stromsburg’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, Stromsburg could be anywhere from D to C.
How far Stromsburg’s workers travel
About 28% 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.
Who works in Stromsburg, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 466 residents head out to work, 57 work right here, and 253 people come in from elsewhere.
About 950 people are in Stromsburg on a workday afternoon, 18% fewer than live here.
0.59 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.
Out of Stromsburg to work: where people go
Where Stromsburg clocks in
10% of workers
9% 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.
Inside Stromsburg’s 310 jobs
310 jobs are based in Stromsburg.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Stromsburg, 2013 → 2023: 383 → 310. 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 Stromsburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Stromsburg: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Stromsburg workers work from home, vs 11% across Nebraska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 417 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Stromsburg
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Stromsburg is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.5% across Nebraska, on an EPA index of 7.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 478 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). 1.9% of Stromsburg households have no vehicle (Nebraska 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Stromsburg’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600, Stromsburg ranks 3,196th of 4,312 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 |
| … | |||||||
| 3,194 | Ashland NY | 1,437 | $56K | 16.4% | 5.8% | <1% | C− |
| 3,195 | Berino NM | 1,454 | $40K | 17.1% | 7.8% | 0% | C− |
| 3,196 | Stromsburg NE | 1,159 | $59K | 12.2% | 0.2% | 11% | C− |
| 3,197 | Bainbridge NY | 1,248 | $58K | 11.4% | 5.9% | 8% | C− |
| 3,198 | Salt Lick Township OH | 1,083 | $56K | 11.7% | 6.3% | 3% | 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 Stromsburg, 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 Stromsburg: questions
What is the median household income in Stromsburg?
$58,988 (±$7,791) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,475 across Nebraska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Stromsburg?
12.2%, against 10.6% across Nebraska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Stromsburg?
23 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Nebraska and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Stromsburg work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Columbus (10%, 25 mi), York (10%, 17 mi), Lincoln (9%, 52 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Stromsburg walkable?
Stromsburg is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.7 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Stromsburg without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Stromsburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Stromsburg
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.