Work & commute · Wood Heights

Work & commute in Wood Heights, MO

Most working residents leave Wood Heights for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Kansas City (22%), Liberty (11%) and Excelsior Springs (10%). Half commute less than 23 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

3 of 307 working residents

Typical commute

23 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

32 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 304 Wood Heights residents head out of town to work, 3 work right here, and 28 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Wood Heights.

304live here, work elsewhere

3live and work here

28work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Wood Heights goes to work

Kansas City25.6 mi away

22%69

Liberty15.4 mi away

11%33

Excelsior Springs4.2 mi away

10%30

Richmond11.2 mi away

5%15

Independence20.4 mi away

4%13

Kansas City, KS34.5 mi away

4%12

North Kansas City25.7 mi away

3%8

Claycomo19.6 mi away

2%6

Blue Springs23.5 mi away

2%6

Lee's Summit31.4 mi away

2%6

Everywhere elseother towns and states

36%109

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

How far

How far Wood Heights commutes

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

17%

38%

31%

14%

17%Under 10 mi

38%10–24 mi

31%25–50 mi

14%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Wood Heights is a commuter town

0.10jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Wood Heights are

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

Jobs based in Wood Heights

31 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities65%

Services (health, schools, offices…)26%

$1,250 a month or less29%

$1,251–$3,333 a month45%

Over $3,333 a month26%

Jobs Wood Heights residents hold

307 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities28%

Services (health, schools, offices…)48%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month62%

+138%

Jobs based in Wood Heights, 2013 → 2023: 13 → 31. 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.