Work & commute · Cooter

Work & commute in Cooter, MO

Most working residents leave Cooter for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Blytheville (15%), Steele (14%) and Caruthersville (6%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

1 of 110 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 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 109 Cooter residents head out of town to work, 1 work right here, and 74 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Cooter.

109live here, work elsewhere

1live and work here

74work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Cooter goes to work

Blytheville, AR9.4 mi away

15%17

Steele4.4 mi away

14%15

Caruthersville12.2 mi away

6%7

Gosnell, AR10.5 mi away

5%6

Kennett18.8 mi away

4%4

Paragould, AR39.2 mi away

3%3

Hayti13.3 mi away

3%3

New Madrid40 mi away

3%3

Sikeston59.1 mi away

3%3

Cape Girardeau88.3 mi away

2%2

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%47

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

How far

How far Cooter commutes

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

38%

24%

13%

26%

38%Under 10 mi

24%10–24 mi

13%25–50 mi

26%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Cooter is a commuter town

0.68jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Cooter are

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

Jobs based in Cooter

75 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)7%

Trade, transport & utilities47%

Services (health, schools, offices…)47%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month64%

Jobs Cooter residents hold

110 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)35%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)47%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month55%

−3%

Jobs based in Cooter, 2013 → 2023: 77 → 75. 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.