Work & commute · Riverside

Work & commute in Riverside, MO

Most working residents leave Riverside for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Kansas City (38%), Kansas City (7%) and North Kansas City (6%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

105 of 1,878 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

20%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,773 Riverside residents head out of town to work, 105 work right here, and 7,205 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Riverside.

1,773live here, work elsewhere

105live and work here

7,205work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Riverside goes to work

Kansas City5.5 mi away

38%710

Kansas City, KS6.8 mi away

7%134

North Kansas City4.3 mi away

6%108

Riverside (in town)right here

6%105

Overland Park, KS19.8 mi away

4%81

Liberty12.4 mi away

3%55

Gladstone4.8 mi away

2%42

Lenexa, KS17 mi away

2%41

Independence16.2 mi away

2%36

St. Joseph41.8 mi away

2%35

Everywhere elseother towns and states

28%531

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

How far

How far Riverside commutes

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

56%

29%

11%

56%Under 10 mi

29%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

11%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Riverside is a job hub

3.89jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Riverside are

7,310 jobs are based in Riverside. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Riverside’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Riverside

7,310 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)47%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)36%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month70%

Jobs Riverside residents hold

1,878 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities26%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month60%

+33%

Jobs based in Riverside, 2013 → 2023: 5,486 → 7,310. 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.