Work & commute · St. Martins

Work & commute in St. Martins, MO

Most working residents leave St. Martins for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Jefferson City (56%), Columbia (9%) and Fulton (1%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

8 of 684 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

14%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 676 St. Martins residents head out of town to work, 8 work right here, and 320 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Martins.

676live here, work elsewhere

8live and work here

320work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Martins goes to work

Jefferson City8.8 mi away

56%383

Columbia24.1 mi away

9%64

Fulton27.2 mi away

1%10

St. Martins (in town)right here

1%8

Holts Summit12.4 mi away

1%6

California12.8 mi away

1%6

Osage Beach36.2 mi away

1%5

Kansas City124.7 mi away

1%5

Springfield110.1 mi away

1%5

Eldon21.5 mi away

1%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

27%188

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

How far

How far St. Martins commutes

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

58%

18%

16%

58%Under 10 mi

18%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

16%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Martins is a commuter town

0.48jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Martins are

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

Jobs based in St. Martins

328 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)53%

Trade, transport & utilities31%

Services (health, schools, offices…)15%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month63%

Jobs St. Martins residents hold

684 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month57%

+27%

Jobs based in St. Martins, 2013 → 2023: 258 → 328. 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.