Work & commute · Sweet Springs

Work & commute in Sweet Springs, MO

Most working residents leave Sweet Springs for work: only 14% work in town. The top destinations are Marshall (12%), Concordia (8%) and Kansas City (8%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

14%

93 of 661 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

20 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 568 Sweet Springs residents head out of town to work, 93 work right here, and 501 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Sweet Springs.

568live here, work elsewhere

93live and work here

501work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Sweet Springs goes to work

Sweet Springs (in town)right here

14%93

Marshall15.5 mi away

12%78

Concordia8.4 mi away

8%55

Kansas City61.8 mi away

8%50

Sedalia20.4 mi away

7%48

Higginsville18.1 mi away

3%18

Columbia58.6 mi away

2%14

Warrensburg21.4 mi away

2%12

Jefferson City72.3 mi away

2%11

Lexington28.5 mi away

1%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

41%274

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

How far

How far Sweet Springs commutes

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

24%

35%

32%

24%Under 10 mi

35%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

32%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Sweet Springs is balanced between jobs and homes

0.90jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.90 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Sweet Springs are

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

Jobs based in Sweet Springs

594 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)3%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)80%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month40%

Jobs Sweet Springs residents hold

661 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month46%

+16%

Jobs based in Sweet Springs, 2013 → 2023: 510 → 594. 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.