Work & commute · Cole Camp

Work & commute in Cole Camp, MO

Most working residents leave Cole Camp for work: only 17% work in town. The top destinations are Sedalia (24%), Kansas City (5%) and Springfield (4%). Half commute less than 18 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

17%

70 of 415 working residents

Typical commute

18 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 345 Cole Camp residents head out of town to work, 70 work right here, and 376 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Cole Camp.

345live here, work elsewhere

70live and work here

376work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Cole Camp goes to work

Sedalia17.1 mi away

24%101

Cole Camp (in town)right here

17%70

Kansas City85.9 mi away

5%20

Springfield87.5 mi away

4%15

Warsaw17.1 mi away

2%9

Stover11.5 mi away

2%8

Lincoln8.3 mi away

2%8

Clinton31.2 mi away

2%7

Columbia58 mi away

1%6

Lebanon61.9 mi away

1%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%166

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

How far

How far Cole Camp commutes

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

24%

36%

32%

24%Under 10 mi

36%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

32%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Cole Camp is balanced between jobs and homes

1.07jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.07 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Cole Camp are

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

Jobs based in Cole Camp

446 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)3%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)77%

$1,250 a month or less26%

$1,251–$3,333 a month39%

Over $3,333 a month35%

Jobs Cole Camp residents hold

415 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month51%

−6%

Jobs based in Cole Camp, 2013 → 2023: 473 → 446. 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.