Darling co-authored the report with Sara Logan. Their findings are available through Kansas county Extension offices in the newly-released Community Development Study Report. When it works out well, it's a good balance and everyone's happy. Darling thinks most of these come from nearby Kingman, Sumner, Cowley, Butler, Harvey and Marion counties. The numbers, Darling said, only reflect a net commuting pattern.
Every county has workers who commute to nearby jobs and others who come into the county to work.
A good example is in Pawnee County, where dozens of commuters are employed at the Larned State Hospital and Prison. Yet, Pawnee County has a negative commuting pattern due to a larger number of residents who commute to jobs in neighboring counties. Wyandotte County is the state's largest supplier of non-resident jobs. The report lists Wyandotte's net commuter work force at 24,541. It may be no coincidence, then, that nearby Johnson County has the state's largest net outflow of workers.