Work & commute · Lamar Heights

Work & commute in Lamar Heights, MO

Most working residents leave Lamar Heights for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Lamar (22%), Springfield (11%) and Joplin (10%). Half commute less than 30 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

1 of 73 working residents

Typical commute

30 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

10 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 72 Lamar Heights residents head out of town to work, 1 work right here, and 147 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lamar Heights.

72live here, work elsewhere

1live and work here

147work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Lamar Heights goes to work

Lamar0.8 mi away

22%16

Springfield58.7 mi away

11%8

Joplin31.1 mi away

10%7

Carthage24 mi away

5%4

Nevada24.4 mi away

3%2

Jefferson City137.1 mi away

3%2

Central7 mi away

3%2

Frontenac, KS22.5 mi away

1%1

Pittsburg, KS22.9 mi away

1%1

Shawnee, KS108.8 mi away

1%1

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%29

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

How far

How far Lamar Heights commutes

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

28%

18%

15%

39%

28%Under 10 mi

18%10–24 mi

15%25–50 mi

39%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Lamar Heights is a job hub

2.03jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Lamar Heights are

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

Jobs based in Lamar Heights

148 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)4%

Trade, transport & utilities11%

Services (health, schools, offices…)85%

$1,250 a month or less39%

$1,251–$3,333 a month45%

Over $3,333 a month16%

Jobs Lamar Heights residents hold

73 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities30%

Services (health, schools, offices…)45%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month45%

Over $3,333 a month45%

−27%

Jobs based in Lamar Heights, 2013 → 2023: 203 → 148. 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.