Work & commute · Festus

Work & commute in Festus, MO

Most working residents leave Festus for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are St. Louis (12%), Crystal City (5%) and Arnold (4%). Half commute less than 26 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

533 of 5,908 working residents

Typical commute

26 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 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 5,375 Festus residents head out of town to work, 533 work right here, and 3,750 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Festus.

5,375live here, work elsewhere

533live and work here

3,750work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Festus goes to work

St. Louis30.1 mi away

12%681

Festus (in town)right here

9%533

Crystal City1.6 mi away

5%278

Arnold14.4 mi away

4%223

Creve Coeur30.6 mi away

3%178

Maryland Heights34.5 mi away

3%175

Herculaneum2.8 mi away

3%165

Fenton21.5 mi away

3%165

Chesterfield31.7 mi away

2%142

Pevely4.8 mi away

2%110

Everywhere elseother towns and states

55%3,258

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

How far

How far Festus commutes

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

25%

24%

43%

25%Under 10 mi

24%10–24 mi

43%25–50 mi

8%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Festus is a commuter town

0.72jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Festus are

4,283 jobs are based in Festus. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Festus’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Festus

4,283 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities30%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less27%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month33%

Jobs Festus residents hold

5,908 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month59%

−5%

Jobs based in Festus, 2013 → 2023: 4,516 → 4,283. 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.