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Work & commute · Blue Eye

Work & commute in Blue Eye, MO

Most working residents leave Blue Eye for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Springfield (12%), Branson (9%) and Berryville (4%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
6%
7 of 116 working residents
Typical commute
14 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
24 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
27%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 109 Blue Eye residents head out of town to work, 7 work right here, and 209 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Blue Eye.

109live here, work elsewhere
7live and work here
209work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Blue Eye goes to work

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1
Springfield46.9 mi away
12%14
2
Branson8.6 mi away
9%11
3
Blue Eye (in town)right here
6%7
4
Berryville, AR14.8 mi away
4%5
5
Hollister10.1 mi away
3%4
6
Joplin73.1 mi away
3%4
7
Bentonville, AR48.9 mi away
3%3
8
Kimberling City9.3 mi away
3%3
9
Branson West11.7 mi away
3%3
10
Green Forest, AR13.1 mi away
2%2
Everywhere elseother towns and states
52%60

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

How far

How far Blue Eye commutes

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

29%Under 10 mi
30%10–24 mi
19%25–50 mi
21%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Blue Eye is a job hub

1.86jobs per working resident
A job hub

1.9 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Blue Eye are

216 jobs are based in Blue Eye. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Blue Eye’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Blue Eye

216 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)0%
Trade, transport & utilities1%
Services (health, schools, offices…)99%
$1,250 a month or less24%
$1,251–$3,333 a month36%
Over $3,333 a month40%

Jobs Blue Eye residents hold

116 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)14%
Trade, transport & utilities19%
Services (health, schools, offices…)67%
$1,250 a month or less31%
$1,251–$3,333 a month39%
Over $3,333 a month30%
+17%

Jobs based in Blue Eye, 2013 → 2023: 185 → 216. 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.

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