Work & commute · Portageville

Work & commute in Portageville, MO

About one in 4 of Portageville’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are New Madrid (5%), Sikeston (5%) and Hayti (3%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

25%

290 of 1,147 working residents

Typical commute

17 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

16 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 857 Portageville residents head out of town to work, 290 work right here, and 718 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Portageville.

857live here, work elsewhere

290live and work here

718work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Portageville goes to work

Portageville (in town)right here

25%290

New Madrid13.6 mi away

5%60

Sikeston32 mi away

5%59

Hayti13.9 mi away

3%40

Caruthersville17.2 mi away

3%40

Marston8 mi away

3%39

Cape Girardeau61.3 mi away

3%32

Kennett23.4 mi away

2%28

Poplar Bluff45.9 mi away

2%27

Dexter29.1 mi away

2%25

Everywhere elseother towns and states

44%507

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

How far

How far Portageville commutes

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

36%

22%

21%

36%Under 10 mi

22%10–24 mi

21%25–50 mi

21%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Portageville is balanced between jobs and homes

0.88jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.88 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Portageville are

1,008 jobs are based in Portageville. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Portageville’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Portageville

1,008 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)45%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)40%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month55%

Jobs Portageville residents hold

1,147 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)29%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)47%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month51%

−4%

Jobs based in Portageville, 2013 → 2023: 1,055 → 1,008. 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.