Photo: Ammodramus · Public domainHousehold incomes in Tecumseh are lower than in 92% of U.S. towns
About one in four work in Tecumseh itself; outside it, Lincoln draws the most (15%, 40 miles). Below the poverty line: 12.8% of residents (Nebraska 10.6%). Tecumseh grades D for jobs and income and A− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Tecumseh: the figures worth knowing
Tecumseh’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Tecumseh is Lincoln, 40 miles away as the crow flies. 15% of working residents (88) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Tecumseh is where the jobs are
Tecumseh has 989 jobs, 1.7 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Tecumseh workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 24 minutes each way, against 19 across Nebraska. Over a year that’s about 184 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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; with 586 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Tecumseh’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Tecumseh is better than 8% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Tecumseh’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($45,357, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (6.3%) is left out: Tecumseh’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, Tecumseh could be anywhere from D− to C−.
The commute from Tecumseh, by distance
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.
In and out of Tecumseh on a workday
On a workday 411 residents head out to work, 175 work right here, and 814 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,100 people are in Tecumseh on a workday afternoon, 24% more than live here.
1.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
How long Tecumseh spends getting to work: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tecumseh workers work from home, vs 11% across Nebraska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 688 commuters (the 10% 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.
Who travels to work in Tecumseh, and from where
Where Tecumseh clocks in
15% 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.
65% of the jobs in Tecumseh pay over $3,333 a month
989 jobs are based in Tecumseh.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tecumseh, 2013 → 2023: 1,232 → 989. 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 Tecumseh’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Tecumseh is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Tecumseh is more walkable than 81% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 12.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.5% across Nebraska, on an EPA index of 7.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 767 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). 13.8% of Tecumseh households have no vehicle (Nebraska 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Tecumseh’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Tecumseh is 4,965th among 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 187 | Yutan NE | 1,451 | $103K | 0.7% | 8.8% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 266 | Buccaneer Bay NE | 1,418 | $161K | 4.9% | 0.0% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 297 | Beaver Lake NE | 2,114 | $122K | 1.7% | 3.0% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 4,963 | Homosassa FL | 1,942 | $52K | 16.6% | 3.7% | 9% | D |
| 4,964 | Bunker Hill OR | 1,626 | $60K | 24.4% | 1.1% | 3% | D |
| 4,965 | Tecumseh NE | 1,695 | $45K | 12.8% | 6.3% | 30% | D |
| 4,966 | Norwood NY | 1,521 | $54K | 17.2% | 8.4% | 2% | D |
| 4,967 | Franklin TX | 1,805 | $54K | 24.6% | 6.7% | 14% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | 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 Tecumseh, 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 Tecumseh: questions
What is the median household income in Tecumseh?
$45,357 (±$5,171) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,475 across Nebraska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tecumseh?
12.8%, against 10.6% across Nebraska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tecumseh?
24 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Nebraska and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tecumseh work?
30% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lincoln (15%, 40 mi), Omaha (9%, 62 mi), Beatrice (3%, 30 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Tecumseh walkable?
Tecumseh is more walkable than 81% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 12% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tecumseh without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tecumseh, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tecumseh
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.