Work & commute · Des Peres

Work & commute in Des Peres, MO

Most working residents leave Des Peres for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are St. Louis (17%), Chesterfield (7%) and Clayton (6%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

191 of 3,675 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

16 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

19%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 3,484 Des Peres residents head out of town to work, 191 work right here, and 14,177 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Des Peres.

3,484live here, work elsewhere

191live and work here

14,177work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Des Peres goes to work

St. Louis11.1 mi away

17%612

Chesterfield8.4 mi away

7%239

Clayton7 mi away

6%228

Creve Coeur4.4 mi away

6%208

Maryland Heights8.3 mi away

5%195

Des Peres (in town)right here

5%191

Town and Country2.9 mi away

4%144

Kirkwood1.9 mi away

4%142

Fenton4.8 mi away

2%78

Webster Groves5 mi away

2%68

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%1,570

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

How far

How far Des Peres commutes

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

63%

29%

63%Under 10 mi

29%10–24 mi

2%25–50 mi

6%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Des Peres is a job hub

3.91jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Des Peres are

14,368 jobs are based in Des Peres. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Des Peres’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Des Peres

14,368 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)1%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)82%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month19%

Over $3,333 a month66%

Jobs Des Peres residents hold

3,675 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month13%

Over $3,333 a month74%

+92%

Jobs based in Des Peres, 2013 → 2023: 7,485 → 14,368. 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.