Work & commute · Pilot Knob

Work & commute in Pilot Knob, MO

Most working residents leave Pilot Knob for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Farmington (13%), Ironton (13%) and St. Louis (4%). Half commute less than 22 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

11 of 253 working residents

Typical commute

22 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 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 242 Pilot Knob residents head out of town to work, 11 work right here, and 215 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Pilot Knob.

242live here, work elsewhere

11live and work here

215work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Pilot Knob goes to work

Farmington16.2 mi away

13%34

Ironton2 mi away

13%32

Pilot Knob (in town)right here

4%11

St. Louis73.3 mi away

4%9

Potosi22.7 mi away

3%8

Fredericktown19.1 mi away

3%8

Fenton63.5 mi away

2%5

Viburnum27.4 mi away

2%4

Poplar Bluff60.7 mi away

2%4

Cape Girardeau63.4 mi away

2%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

53%134

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

How far

How far Pilot Knob commutes

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

26%

28%

38%

26%Under 10 mi

28%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

38%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Pilot Knob is balanced between jobs and homes

0.89jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.89 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Pilot Knob are

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

Jobs based in Pilot Knob

226 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities3%

Services (health, schools, offices…)91%

$1,250 a month or less24%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month43%

Jobs Pilot Knob residents hold

253 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less22%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month42%

+24%

Jobs based in Pilot Knob, 2013 → 2023: 182 → 226. 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.