Work & commute · Stover

Work & commute in Stover, MO

Most working residents leave Stover for work: only 15% work in town. The top destinations are Versailles (15%), Springfield (4%) and Jefferson City (4%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

15%

48 of 317 working residents

Typical commute

19 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 269 Stover residents head out of town to work, 48 work right here, and 362 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Stover.

269live here, work elsewhere

48live and work here

362work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Stover goes to work

Stover (in town)right here

15%48

Versailles7.8 mi away

15%47

Springfield87.7 mi away

4%14

Jefferson City44.9 mi away

4%13

Cole Camp11.5 mi away

3%8

Eldon23.2 mi away

2%7

Osage Beach28.1 mi away

2%7

Kansas City96.4 mi away

2%7

Columbia50 mi away

2%6

St. Louis149 mi away

2%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

49%155

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

How far

How far Stover commutes

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

37%

22%

32%

37%Under 10 mi

22%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

32%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Stover is balanced between jobs and homes

1.29jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.29 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Stover are

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

Jobs based in Stover

410 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)2%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)75%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month39%

Over $3,333 a month43%

Jobs Stover residents hold

317 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month47%

+22%

Jobs based in Stover, 2013 → 2023: 336 → 410. 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.