Work & commute · Airport Drive

Work & commute in Airport Drive, MO

Most working residents leave Airport Drive for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Joplin (40%), Webb City (7%) and Springfield (7%). Half commute less than 6 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

5 of 335 working residents

Typical commute

6 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

15 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 330 Airport Drive residents head out of town to work, 5 work right here, and 493 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Airport Drive.

330live here, work elsewhere

5live and work here

493work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Airport Drive goes to work

Joplin4.6 mi away

40%135

Webb City2.7 mi away

7%23

Springfield67.5 mi away

7%22

Carthage10.6 mi away

4%14

Carl Junction2.2 mi away

2%8

Galena, KS8 mi away

2%6

Pittsburg, KS21.3 mi away

2%6

Baxter Springs, KS14.7 mi away

1%5

Airport Drive (in town)right here

1%5

Neosho21.8 mi away

1%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

32%106

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Airport Drive commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

64%

13%

19%

64%Under 10 mi

13%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Airport Drive is balanced between jobs and homes

1.49jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.49 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Airport Drive are

498 jobs are based in Airport Drive. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Airport Drive’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Airport Drive

498 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities50%

Services (health, schools, offices…)36%

$1,250 a month or less26%

$1,251–$3,333 a month51%

Over $3,333 a month24%

Jobs Airport Drive residents hold

335 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)52%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month54%

+219%

Jobs based in Airport Drive, 2013 → 2023: 156 → 498. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.