Work & commute · Oaks

Work & commute in Oaks, MO

Most working residents leave Oaks for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Kansas City (39%), Kansas City (9%) and North Kansas City (5%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

0 of 80 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 80 Oaks residents head out of town to work, 0 work right here, and 2 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Oaks.

80live here, work elsewhere

0live and work here

2work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Oaks goes to work

Kansas City5.1 mi away

39%31

Kansas City, KS10.5 mi away

9%7

North Kansas City4 mi away

5%4

Gladstone1.3 mi away

5%4

Lenexa, KS20.3 mi away

4%3

Overland Park, KS22.2 mi away

4%3

Independence14.1 mi away

4%3

Excelsior Springs20.3 mi away

3%2

Grandview22 mi away

3%2

Blue Springs20.7 mi away

3%2

Everywhere elseother towns and states

24%19

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

How far

How far Oaks commutes

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

48%

36%

13%

48%Under 10 mi

36%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

13%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Oaks is a commuter town

0.03jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Oaks are

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

Jobs based in Oaks

2 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)0%

Trade, transport & utilities100%

Services (health, schools, offices…)0%

$1,250 a month or less100%

$1,251–$3,333 a month0%

Over $3,333 a month0%

Jobs Oaks residents hold

80 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month60%

−98%

Jobs based in Oaks, 2013 → 2023: 121 → 2. 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.