Work & commute · Chaffee

Work & commute in Chaffee, MO

Most working residents leave Chaffee for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Cape Girardeau (33%), Sikeston (8%) and Jackson (5%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

112 of 1,200 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

19 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 1,088 Chaffee residents head out of town to work, 112 work right here, and 354 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Chaffee.

1,088live here, work elsewhere

112live and work here

354work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Chaffee goes to work

Cape Girardeau10.5 mi away

33%396

Chaffee (in town)right here

9%112

Sikeston21 mi away

8%93

Jackson13.7 mi away

5%60

Scott City7.4 mi away

3%37

Pike14.5 mi away

1%16

Poplar Bluff50.6 mi away

1%10

St. Louis105.4 mi away

1%10

Benton7.9 mi away

1%9

Columbia189.5 mi away

1%9

Everywhere elseother towns and states

37%448

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

How far

How far Chaffee commutes

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

38%

41%

18%

38%Under 10 mi

41%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

18%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Chaffee is a commuter town

0.39jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.39 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Chaffee are

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

Jobs based in Chaffee

466 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)7%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less22%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month40%

Jobs Chaffee residents hold

1,200 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month45%

+35%

Jobs based in Chaffee, 2013 → 2023: 345 → 466. 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.