Work & commute · Cottleville

Work & commute in Cottleville, MO

Most working residents leave Cottleville for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are O'Fallon (9%), St. Peters (9%) and Chesterfield (7%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

64 of 2,952 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

14%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 2,888 Cottleville residents head out of town to work, 64 work right here, and 3,253 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Cottleville.

2,888live here, work elsewhere

64live and work here

3,253work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Cottleville goes to work

O'Fallon3.9 mi away

9%261

St. Peters3.5 mi away

9%259

Chesterfield7.7 mi away

7%201

St. Louis23.7 mi away

7%198

St. Charles8.3 mi away

6%175

Maryland Heights10.3 mi away

6%165

Berkeley17.3 mi away

4%131

Creve Coeur13.1 mi away

4%120

Clayton19.2 mi away

3%96

Town and Country12.8 mi away

2%66

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%1,280

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

How far

How far Cottleville commutes

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

37%

51%

37%Under 10 mi

51%10–24 mi

5%25–50 mi

7%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Cottleville is balanced between jobs and homes

1.12jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.12 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Cottleville are

3,317 jobs are based in Cottleville. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Cottleville’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Cottleville

3,317 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)4%

Trade, transport & utilities10%

Services (health, schools, offices…)86%

$1,250 a month or less29%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month41%

Jobs Cottleville residents hold

2,952 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month17%

Over $3,333 a month70%

+189%

Jobs based in Cottleville, 2013 → 2023: 1,149 → 3,317. 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.