Work & commute · Jennings

Work & commute in Jennings, MO

Most working residents leave Jennings for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are St. Louis (26%), Maryland Heights (6%) and Bridgeton (3%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

97 of 4,948 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 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 4,851 Jennings residents head out of town to work, 97 work right here, and 2,254 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Jennings.

4,851live here, work elsewhere

97live and work here

2,254work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Jennings goes to work

St. Louis6.1 mi away

26%1,279

Maryland Heights11.2 mi away

6%285

Bridgeton8.9 mi away

3%157

Creve Coeur10.5 mi away

3%148

Hazelwood8.6 mi away

3%139

St. Charles14.4 mi away

3%130

Florissant6.3 mi away

2%123

St. Peters18.8 mi away

2%111

Clayton6.5 mi away

2%106

Jennings (in town)right here

2%97

Everywhere elseother towns and states

48%2,373

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

How far

How far Jennings commutes

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

65%

27%

65%Under 10 mi

27%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

5%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Jennings is a commuter town

0.48jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Jennings are

2,351 jobs are based in Jennings. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Jennings’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Jennings

2,351 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)29%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)48%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month53%

Jobs Jennings residents hold

4,948 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)71%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month40%

−9%

Jobs based in Jennings, 2013 → 2023: 2,577 → 2,351. 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.