100% of Big Spring’s working residents leave town for work
Most working residents leave Big Spring for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Hermann (13%), Montgomery City (11%) and Columbia (7%). Half commute less than 31 miles.
What kind of work town is Big Spring?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
13% of working residents work in Hermann
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Big Spring clocks in
13% of workers
11% of workers
7% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Big Spring quiets down on a workday
On a workday 61 residents head out to work, 0 work right here, and 2 people come in from elsewhere.
About 81 people are in Big Spring on a workday afternoon, 42% fewer than live here.
0.03 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.
Half of Big Spring commutes less than 31 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 25% 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.
Big Spring makes things: 50% of its jobs are in goods
2 jobs are based in Big Spring. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Big Spring’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Big Spring, 2013 → 2023: 41 → 2. 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.
Working from home in Big Spring
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
of Big Spring workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
- Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
More of Big Spring
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Big Spring, from the people who make the trip.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
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.