Work & commute · Park Hills

Work & commute in Park Hills, MO

Most working residents leave Park Hills for work: only 13% work in town. The top destinations are Farmington (23%), St. Louis (4%) and Bonne Terre (4%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

13%

435 of 3,440 working residents

Typical commute

13 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 3,005 Park Hills residents head out of town to work, 435 work right here, and 2,229 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Park Hills.

3,005live here, work elsewhere

435live and work here

2,229work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Park Hills goes to work

Farmington4.5 mi away

23%775

Park Hills (in town)right here

13%435

St. Louis58.3 mi away

4%146

Bonne Terre7.7 mi away

4%123

Desloge4.3 mi away

2%71

Potosi17.2 mi away

2%70

Cape Girardeau62.2 mi away

2%59

Leadington1.6 mi away

2%58

Fredericktown20.5 mi away

1%50

Clayton58 mi away

1%41

Everywhere elseother towns and states

47%1,612

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

How far

How far Park Hills commutes

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

49%

10%

14%

27%

49%Under 10 mi

10%10–24 mi

14%25–50 mi

27%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Park Hills is balanced between jobs and homes

0.77jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.77 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Park Hills are

2,664 jobs are based in Park Hills. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Park Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Park Hills

2,664 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month50%

Jobs Park Hills residents hold

3,440 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month43%

−28%

Jobs based in Park Hills, 2013 → 2023: 3,679 → 2,664. 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.