Work & commute · Wardsville

Work & commute in Wardsville, MO

Most working residents leave Wardsville for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Jefferson City (54%), Columbia (7%) and Meta (1%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

25 of 774 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 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 749 Wardsville residents head out of town to work, 25 work right here, and 393 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Wardsville.

749live here, work elsewhere

25live and work here

393work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Wardsville goes to work

Jefferson City5.2 mi away

54%420

Columbia32.4 mi away

7%56

Wardsville (in town)right here

3%25

Meta12.5 mi away

1%9

Holts Summit11.4 mi away

1%7

Fulton28 mi away

1%7

St. Martins11 mi away

1%6

Osage Beach35.2 mi away

1%6

Sedalia58.8 mi away

1%6

Creve Coeur94.7 mi away

1%5

Everywhere elseother towns and states

29%227

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

How far

How far Wardsville commutes

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

64%

13%

15%

64%Under 10 mi

7%10–24 mi

13%25–50 mi

15%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Wardsville is a commuter town

0.54jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Wardsville are

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

Jobs based in Wardsville

418 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities6%

Services (health, schools, offices…)86%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month64%

Jobs Wardsville residents hold

774 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month19%

Over $3,333 a month63%

−76%

Jobs based in Wardsville, 2013 → 2023: 1,769 → 418. 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.