Work & commute · Sunset Hills

Work & commute in Sunset Hills, MO

Most working residents leave Sunset Hills for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are St. Louis (21%), Clayton (4%) and Chesterfield (4%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

191 of 3,726 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

18%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 3,535 Sunset Hills residents head out of town to work, 191 work right here, and 10,264 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Sunset Hills.

3,535live here, work elsewhere

191live and work here

10,264work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Sunset Hills goes to work

St. Louis11.5 mi away

21%765

Sunset Hills (in town)right here

5%191

Clayton8.9 mi away

4%162

Chesterfield12.7 mi away

4%162

Creve Coeur9.2 mi away

4%144

Maryland Heights13.3 mi away

4%133

Kirkwood3.4 mi away

3%100

Town and Country7.9 mi away

3%99

Fenton2.2 mi away

3%95

Sappington2 mi away

2%91

Everywhere elseother towns and states

48%1,784

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

How far

How far Sunset Hills commutes

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

52%

38%

52%Under 10 mi

38%10–24 mi

2%25–50 mi

7%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Sunset Hills is a job hub

2.81jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Sunset Hills are

10,455 jobs are based in Sunset Hills. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Sunset Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Sunset Hills

10,455 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)7%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)75%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month58%

Jobs Sunset Hills residents hold

3,726 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month19%

Over $3,333 a month69%

+31%

Jobs based in Sunset Hills, 2013 → 2023: 7,957 → 10,455. 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.