Photo: Rowen Hansen · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Adrian trail those of 84% of U.S. towns
The two grades for Adrian are C− for jobs and income and B for walkability. Below the poverty line: 13.8% of residents, against 12.6% across Missouri. About one in ten stay in Adrian for work; outside it, Butler is the main destination (11%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Why Adrian gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Adrian is better than 17% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Adrian’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($52,829, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (10.7%) is left out: Adrian’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Adrian could be anywhere from D to C+.
A workday in Adrian: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 421 residents head out to work, 57 work right here, and 418 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.99 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The places Adrian commutes to
Where Adrian clocks in
11% of workers
9% of workers
4% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Jobs in Adrian: what the 475 are
475 jobs are based in Adrian.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Adrian, 2013 → 2023: 459 → 475. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Adrian’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Adrian: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Adrian workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 623 commuters (the 10% who work from home are left out). Across Missouri: 86% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
How far it is to work from Adrian
About 29% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
The commute in Adrian is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Adrian is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.2% across Missouri.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 692 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 7.7% of Adrian households have no vehicle (Missouri 6.6%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Adrian’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,400, Adrian ranks 4,008th of 5,343 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Warson Woods MO | 1,990 | $207K | 1.3% | 1.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 52 | Weatherby Lake MO | 2,139 | $153K | 3.4% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 53 | Lake Winnebago MO | 1,869 | $179K | 1.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,006 | Springfield Township OH | 1,947 | $61K | 12.7% | 1.9% | 15% | C− |
| 4,007 | Fairfax CA | 1,423 | $30K | 36.4% | 0.0% | 2% | C− |
| 4,008 | Adrian MO | 1,798 | $53K | 13.8% | 10.7% | 12% | C− |
| 4,009 | Milan MO | 1,742 | $56K | 10.7% | 5.8% | 59% | C− |
| 4,010 | Bridgeport OH | 1,523 | $54K | 16.3% | 5.8% | 3% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,343 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Adrian, the top three, the last and three more from Missouri.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Adrian: questions
What is the median household income in Adrian?
$52,829 (±$9,488) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Adrian?
13.8%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Adrian?
27 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Adrian work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Butler (11%, 10 mi), Harrisonville (9%, 17 mi), Kansas City (4%, 51 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Adrian walkable?
Adrian is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 8.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Adrian without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Adrian, from the people who make the trip.
More of Adrian
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.