Wellfleet has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.6 for each
Hardly any stay in Wellfleet for work; outside it, North Platte is the main destination (35%, 26 miles). Wellfleet has 19 jobs; 34 of its residents have a job. Home is the office for 0% of workers (Nebraska 11%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
A workday in Wellfleet: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 34 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 19 people come in from elsewhere.
About 57 people are in Wellfleet on a workday afternoon, 21% 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.
Where people from Wellfleet work
Where Wellfleet clocks in
6% 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.
74% of the jobs in Wellfleet pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wellfleet, 2013 → 2023: 9 → 19. 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 Wellfleet’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Wellfleet: about 21 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wellfleet workers work from home, vs 11% across Nebraska. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 26 commuters (the 0% 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.
The distance from Wellfleet to work
About 33% 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 Wellfleet: questions
What is the median household income in Wellfleet?
$49,792 (±$34,081) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $76,475 across Nebraska and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wellfleet?
1.4%, against 10.6% across Nebraska and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wellfleet?
21 minutes each way on average, against 19 across Nebraska and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wellfleet work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are North Platte (35%, 26 mi), Hershey (9%, 31 mi), Ogallala (6%, 58 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Wellfleet without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wellfleet, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wellfleet
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.