Work & commute · Terre du Lac

Work & commute in Terre du Lac, MO

Most working residents leave Terre du Lac for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Farmington (14%), Bonne Terre (10%) and St. Louis (4%). Half commute less than 21 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

32 of 976 working residents

Typical commute

21 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

36 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

22%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 944 Terre du Lac residents head out of town to work, 32 work right here, and 74 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Terre du Lac.

944live here, work elsewhere

32live and work here

74work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Terre du Lac goes to work

Farmington13.4 mi away

14%132

Bonne Terre4.3 mi away

10%94

St. Louis54.5 mi away

4%39

Potosi8.8 mi away

4%38

Park Hills9 mi away

4%36

Terre du Lac (in town)right here

3%32

Frankclay2.9 mi away

2%23

Cape Girardeau71.1 mi away

2%17

De Soto16.6 mi away

2%15

Creve Coeur53.2 mi away

1%14

Everywhere elseother towns and states

55%536

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

How far

How far Terre du Lac commutes

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

29%

25%

18%

27%

29%Under 10 mi

25%10–24 mi

18%25–50 mi

27%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Terre du Lac is a commuter town

0.11jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Terre du Lac are

106 jobs are based in Terre du Lac. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Terre du Lac’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Terre du Lac

106 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities43%

Services (health, schools, offices…)46%

$1,250 a month or less37%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month26%

Jobs Terre du Lac residents hold

976 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month51%

−33%

Jobs based in Terre du Lac, 2013 → 2023: 158 → 106. 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.